Word: snapping
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...said in December that the freshmen suffered from "stage fright." He hoped the first three or four matches would snap the grapplers out of it, but after the team's eleventh meet last Saturday, Lee admitted he calculated wrong. "They may still be adjusting to college-level wrestling," he said. "I hope they do better next year...
Wordless. Unlike the many jazz singers who grimace, snap their ringers or just plain wonder what to do with themselves during long instrumental introductions and interludes, Cleo knows precisely what is called for: she sings along with all the wordless instrumental agility of a clarinet cozying up to a sax. The man who plays sax to Cleo's clarinet is her arranger, conductor and husband, Johnny Dankworth, himself a leading British jazzman and composer...
...Proves' former chief of staff, is in military detention, discredited for having broken his hunger and thirst strike. Martin McGuinness, the Proves' 22-year-old Derry brigade commander who used to receive reporters in the Bogside gasworks (Any regrets for the shootings? "Certainly not," he would snap), has also been arrested. Other captured leaders include a strategist who used to explain, coolly and lucidly, the lessons in terror that the I.R.A. had learned from the guerrillas of Palestine and Cyprus. Undoubtedly, other terrorist movements will now study I.R.A. tactics...
...embarrassing as it may have been to the Air Force, Heck's decision neither embarrassed nor surprised his family, who knew his feelings from his letters-and sympathized. Said his father, a real estate broker in Chula Vista, Calif.: "It was not a snap judgment. From about September on-from the time he had to go back to Viet Nam, in fact-we had the feeling that he felt things there were not the way he expected them to be. And then when we had this mass bombing, before Christmas, it was just the last straw that triggered...
...crocodile scene, for instance, Saltzman and Broccoli carved out a pond on a crocodile and alligator farm in Jamaica. Since crocs are sluggish once they are fed, 86 of the monsters, specially selected for size and meanness, were starved for three months, just so they could stay awake and snap their jaws with appropriate conviction. How does Bond, who has been placed by Mr. Big on a little island in the middle, escape? He throws them some chicken heads, which were supposed to attract the killers to himself, and while the crocodiles are dining, walks across their backs to shore...