Word: snapping
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...Delany runs, the spike-scarred boards of Madison Square Garden's track curl out eleven uneventful laps to the mile. Other athletes strain to feel the thin snap of the finish tape; Delany beats them to it with deceptive ease. In the mile run at the Knights of Columbus games last week, the pale, frail-looking Irishman loafed through the first 8½ laps as if lazing along the banks of the Liffey back home. He stayed an easy third; suddenly, almost imperceptibly, he moved to second, then, with a lap and a half...
Lockheed's seat far ahead of anything under test. Vertical fins built into the seat and stubby 1-ft. wings that snap into place after the ejection guide the seat on a steady, tumble-free path until its parachute opens automatically below 15,000 ft. and a speed of 350 m.p.h. The seat then falls free...
Harpel wrested fourth place from Ken Bantum of NYU, when on his last toss, he threw 54 feet, 10 inches to snap a dead-lock at 52 feet, 11 3/4 inches
...Crimson held a 3-0 lead over the Terriers in the Beanpot opener on goals by Lyle Guttu, Dave Vietze and Paul Kelley before its defense collapsed at 15:49 of the second period. But after that first B.U. goal, the sextet became slow and uninspired. And nothing could snap them...
...blinding snowstorm, which nevertheless did not prevent some 6,000 shivering Kansans from greeting the President at the airport. So fierce was the blizzard that crash trucks lined the Garden City runway to spotlight a path for Presidential Pilot Bill Draper, who babied the Columbine into a soft snap of a landing under weather conditions that gave the shakes to a group of Air Force pilots waiting and watching on the ground...