Word: snapping
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...Marguerite Michaels, TIME's Midwest bureau chief who has tracked the pedophile scandal from its early days, has joined our team in Rome to cover the selection of the new pope. She caught up to Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, SNAP, who was protesting alone Monday afternoon just beyond the border of St. Peter's (protests could not be held on Vatican territory). Blaine showed a small swarm of reporters a half dozen laminated photos of children who were abused by Roman Catholic priests-herself included. SNAP sent a letter...
However rapidly Reagan may recover, though--and he made a remarkable snap back from his brush with death when an assassin's bullet felled him in March 1981--his health from now on will need close monitoring. Polyps have a tendency to recur; the one removed Saturday was the third detected since Reagan became President. Moreover, as many doctors put it, the kind of intestine that repeatedly grows polyps is the kind that has to be watched for signs of cancer...
...Occasional informalities are quickly caught up, crumpled and tossed away. He shows no signs whatever of seeking affection, as one does in a normal conversation, and rather than expanding on an idea or a story in the interests of courtesy, he will begin to fade off, and suddenly snap to attention by saying, "So much for that." There is almost no small talk. The amiability is reserved for his subject...
...question was a snap: "State and compare the laws of mass energy and momentum conservation in Newtonian and relativistic mechanics . . ." At least it was a snap for Ruth Lawrence, who scribbled the answers to this and 80 other mind bogglers in a four-week Oxford University exam "as if taking dictation," in the words of an awed fellow student. When the marathon test ended, Lawrence had finished first in a field of 192. The average student struggles through just 31 such questions. Lawrence's feat was remarkable for anyone, but all the more so for her, since she is only...
Shooting, storing and sharing are all a snap, and you can set up audio alerts--like "Say cheese"--to give subjects fair warning. Images looked very good; a "macro" lens lets you capture fine print on business cards...