Word: snappingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When I was a Senate Page boy long ago in the 1950s, my boss was Lyndon Johnson's young pet lizard, Bobby Baker. Senator Johnson would snap his fingers softly, and I would hustle to the cooler in the Democratic cloakroom to bring him a glass of White Rock sparkling water or dash down the marble back stairs to the Senate restaurant to fetch a dish of vanilla ice cream, which he ate at his desk on the Senate floor as he played his mighty legislative Wurlitzer...
...public buildings and tract houses. The style fell out of favor in the '70s, and Palm Springs suffered a two-decade recession, from which it has only recently emerged. In 1997 a developer's threat to demolish Tramway Gas sparked a preservation movement and in turn a rush to snap up and restore the area's stock of '50s and '60s homes. Today, although the preservation community is far from having the upper hand, there is at least a fresh focus on the town's wealth of mid-century architecture...
...says Dr. Robert Weiss, as he positions the firing end of his Cool Touch laser in a bed of fine lines just below her right eye. Pop! goes the laser, emitting a pulse of invisible light and a white puff of subzero cooling spray. Biederman feels something like the snap of a rubber band. After Weiss blasts the wrinkles under the right eye, he does the left. By the time he gets to the acne scars on her chin, her right eye is getting red and puffy...
...office party? The Logitech Pocket Digital camera ($130) looks like a posh cigarette case and easily slips into a dinner jacket. The camera is only half an inch thick, but it packs an impressive 1.3-megapixel resolution and can store 52 images. If the party gets wild, you can snap every embarrassing moment...
...better hitting day, the Crimson might have rendered the incident a non-issue with a clutch two-out hit. But on a day when Crimson went 1-for-9 with two outs, freshman catcher Schuyler Mann was helpless to snap Harvard out of its funk. He lined out to third, leaving Hendricks on second...