Word: snappingly
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...behind the Bush Administration's efforts. I fear, however, that in about five years the Americans are going to regret that we did not begin in the early '90s to use our greatest force to oppose Islamist extremists. Cherry Bethea El Dorado Hills, California, U.S. Those Snap Decisions Columnist Joe Klein's "The Blink Presidency" [Feb. 28] persuasively captured George W. Bush's tendency to pursue both domestic and foreign policies on the basis of "instantaneous, subconscious decision making." Unfortunately, this is the same tendency that characterizes addicted gamblers. But the stakes, as in the Iraq fiasco, have turned...
Each group was assigned a conductor (a student member of the wind ensemble) and given a list of noises to be produced, as directed by the conductor. Among the requests to snap, stomp, and cluck, was one particularly challenging assignment: “With mouth closed, project the highest and loudest sound you can, very sharply. This should sound like the squeak of a gigantic mouse...
...Those Snap Decisions...
...hours before she is to appear on stage, she and her fellow contestants learn that the promised rehearsal room is not available. Worse still, the pageant organizer admits that the official hair stylist may not be able to fit everyone in. Chitombo rolls her eyes and makes a snap decision: she'll travel 25 km to her home village and collect $40 from her mom to pay for a killer coiffure. Such travails might put off more pampered competitors, but Chitombo is just happy to be here. For the past three years she has been living with the virus that...
Riding High DENMARK The center-right coalition of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen won a second four-year term in office, securing the support of 94 of 179 parliamentary seats in snap elections. Rasmussen, who called the poll to capitalize on his government's popularity, campaigned on a platform...