Word: snapping
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...zero then flips a pretzle hold on you and you're pinned before you can snap the buckle on your headgear...
...alarm clock burrs, the bedroom curtains swing silently apart, the Venetian blinds snap up and the thermo stat boosts the heat to a cozy 70º. The percolator in the kitchen starts burbling; the back door opens to let out the dog. The TV set blinks on with the day 's first newscast: not your Today show humph-humph, but a selective rundown (ordered up the night before) of all the latest worldwide events affecting the economy ? legislative, political, monetary. After the news on TV comes the morning mail, from correspondents who have dictated their messages into the computer network...
Working with long strings of Is and 0s would be cumbersome for humans-but it is a snap for a digital computer. Composed mostly of parts that are essentially on-off switches, the machines are perfectly suited for binary computation. When a switch is open, it corresponds to the binary digit 0; when it is closed, it stands for the digit 1. Indeed, the first modern digital computer completed by Bell Labs scientists in 1939 employed electromechanical switches called relays, which opened and closed like an old-fashioned Morse telegraph key. Vacuum tubes and transistors can also be used...
Carter declared once again last week that he considered the settlements "illegal" and "an obstacle to peace." But U.S. officials hoped the Egyptians understood that there were limits to the pressures the U.S. could apply. "Unfortunately," said one, "Sadat still thinks all we have to do is snap our fingers to get Israel to do our bidding. We're going to try to disabuse him of that notion...
...hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, watch the light show, gape and be gaped at. Since the club opened nine months ago, Photographer Adam Scull, son of Art Buff Robert Scull and his estranged wife, Ethel, has been there almost' nightly to snap the customers because, he says, "it's something that won't last forever, so it is good to document...