Word: snap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side, Prince Charles hair sliding forward over one eye, Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas looks like a big bird impersonating an adolescent. Mounting the podium, this shambling creature bows low-to the audience, to the orchestra-then, in some sort of mystical transformation, comes up a man. With a snap, the backbone locks firmly into place. The right hand is suddenly holding the baton high over the head. Slowly, powerfully, the left hand rises like a warning semaphore. Quickly, precisely, the right hand gives the downbeat...
...When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you. When you get so old, people talk to you that way. That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way. And that's why you go and hide under the covers in the big soft bed, so you won't feel the house shaking from people talking to you that way. That's why old people die, eventually...
...last winter's preliminary SALT meetings. Both sides have compelling reasons for wanting an early agreement. Just as the Nixon Administration is under pressure to reallocate Government spending, the Soviet leaders would doubtless like to divert money from nuclear arms and into industrial projects that would help snap the Russian economy out of a severe slump...
...followed him that they began referring to him as "poor Ted Heath" while calculating the size of Wilson's victory. Late in the campaign, Heath made a painful effort to unbend a little, but even that sometimes backfired. When TV cameramen swarmed out of a campaign bus to snap Heath in the extraordinary act of kissing a child, a sudden downpour sent everyone running for cover. "If I had any doubts before," muttered one newsman, "now I know: Harold Wilson...
...Italians polled recently in a public-opinion survey were disgusted enough to say that they were willing to vote temporary power to an "honest, energetic and disinterested" dictator. In moments of great frustration, traffic jams or trains that do not run on time, Italians are apt to snap that "If lui were here, this wouldn't happen." Lui-"he" in Italian-is the nation's last dictator. Benito Mussolini...