Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively little local authority. Spiritual head of the 1,000,000 or so Fons, the country's largest ethnic group, the King gets a small stipend from the national treasury. He gets by otherwise on gifts from loyal subjects as well as fees from camera-happy tourists who snap him in his royal robes and silver nosepiece-worn so that he will not sniff impure...
...negotiations are almost the last big U.S. labor talks for 1973, but next year union leaders will negotiate new contracts covering about 3.4 million workers in major industries. That makes the bargaining calendar lighter than this year, when 4.6 million unionists had contracts expire, but still far from a snap. The contracts to be signed in 1974 include those covering the steel industry, one of the traditional pacesetters for U.S. wages...
...directors of the Cattlemen's Hall of Fame in New Braunfels, Texas, promptly elected Goldstein Man of the Month. Jails, hospitals and college cafeterias will have to cut down on servings of meat and stretch their meals with macaroni and plentiful, reasonably priced seasonal produce, including potatoes, snap beans, corn, squash, cucumbers, bananas, peaches, cantaloupes and nectarines. At least two U.S. institutions, however, vowed to pay any price or bear any burden in order to get great portions of red meat for their highly prized charges. One was the Cleveland Browns football team; the other was Chicago...
...salesman for Eastern and for commercial aviation, and he pioneered Eastern's shuttle service between Boston, New York and Washington. He was a stern taskmaster as always, using a microphone at management meetings to heckle subordinates with withering sarcasm. "You're not managers," he would snap. "You're leeches...
Part of the Nixon Administration's hubris was a conviction that every federal agency, no matter how strong its tradition of independence, should snap to attention at a call to the service of the White House. That included the Internal Revenue Service, whose activity touches intimately the lives of almost all Americans. So John Dean told the Watergate committee last week, shredding the last vestige of the myth that Watergate was simply a matter of politicians doing things to other politicians...