Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...symptoms were nearly fatal to Harvard during the opening five minutes of the contest as the Friars put three quick ones past an ailing Jim Murray. But Cleary's "Comeback Kids" have shown remarkable recuperative powers all season long, and were able to snap out of the trance...
...power. More ominously, Federal Energy Chief William Simon warned last week that the home-heating-oil situation is still "critical," although stocks stand at 185 million bbl., v. 137 million bbl. at the same time last year, when stocks were abnormally low. The big danger: a sudden cold snap could quickly deplete inventories...
...hours. Then there were the principal singers: Sopra no Montserrat Caballe, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Baritone Sherrill Milnes, Bass Justino Diaz. They constituted the kind of front-rank cast that the company does not regularly assemble these days. Nor does the Met orchestra play every day with the snap and precision that it gave Conductor Levine...
...button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal devices and color systems of Op art and color-field painting. Seen with an unprejudiced eye, the snap and sparkle of the piecework Cactus Rose-pattern quilt of 1875 can reduce a lot of modernist abstraction to visual mush...
...time last week it appeared that Heath had found a solution: a snap February election to show whether the country supported him or the miners. At the last minute, after a lengthy meeting with his Cabinet, Heath postponed that drastic step. Instead, he decided to meet once more with the powerful Trades Union Congress to resolve the dispute. The T.U.C., which represents 10 million British workers, has promised that if Heath would make a settlement with the 247,000 miners for a wage rise above the government's anti-inflationary Stage III guidelines, other unions would refrain from citing...