Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially pleasing to auto executives for several reasons. First, they reversed two years of disastrous sales decline that had led some critics of Detroit to believe, mistakenly, that the American public's longstanding love affair with the auto was ending. Second, buyers turned away from foreign cars to snap up the American makes. Import sales actually declined in 1976 to 14.3% of the total market, their smallest share in four years. Two reasons: imports are heavily concentrated in no longer popular small cars, and the rising value of the German mark and the Japanese yen has pushed prices...
...seasons since the rookie quarterback with the choirboy face took the snap from center in the Minnesota Vikings' first National Football League game, he has surpassed all others in passing yardage (41,798), touchdowns (308), completions (3,186). Along the way to achieving those records, Tarkenton put a new word-scramble-into the vocabulary of football and marked the game forever with his indelible style. This coming Sunday, he will try for the third time to join the lodge...
...order for the chicken sandwiches that Hughes [always asked for when he] was going off on a plane. [Margulis] made up a packet, along with the mandatory bottle of Poland water, and helped Hughes descend from his hideout down the service elevator to the hotel garage. With his snap-brim hat and his leather jacket, the man who had broken the round-the-world flight record almost forty years earlier boarded an old Daimler limousine and went off to relive the joys of long-gone days...
Four minutes later, Kubacki gave Pagliaro and company another when he dropped the snap from center and watched Yale's Keith Bassi latch onto...
...debate probably did not persuade many voters to switch from one candidate to the other. Most surveys, however, gave Carter the edge in the final confrontation. In a snap poll by Yankelovich, 33% rated Carter the winner, 26% Ford, and 41% called it a tossup. A Roper survey for the Public Broadcast Service showed Carter the clear winner by 40% to 29%, with 31% viewing the encounter as a standoff. On the other hand, an Associated Press telephone sample of 1,027 voters gave Ford the victory, 35.5% to 33%. The A.P. sample also gave Ford the edge over Carter...