Word: snappingly
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...Fitzy to say something like that, I knew something was wrong. So I said, ‘Can you play?’ And he said, ‘I don’t know, I don’t think I can take a snap, but I can go shotgun.’ And right then I knew...
Much to their chagrin, the Crimson rowers proved unable to snap the inglorious streak on the seventh try, capping their 2004 campaign with a fifth-place showing on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J., where adverse weather conditions precluded a proper title defense...
...Flash" was our code word, and countersign was "Thunder." We also had been given a child's cricket snapper. One snap was to be answered by two snaps ... or was it the other way around? "Oh, hell," I mutter. "Just snap the damn thing a few times." In reply, I get, "Look out, I'm coming over." He sounds good to me, and I say, "Come...
...More Perfect Storm. The premise is this: Global warming has thrown Earth's delicate climate grotesquely out of whack. Sinuously swaying tornadoes chew through the HOLLYWOOD sign in California. Killer hail bops Japanese commuters on the head. New York City is spectacularly swamped by a tidal wave and then snap-frozen at --150°F by a killer blizzard. (That must mean it's officially O.K. to destroy New York City in movies again.) Somewhere in there Dennis Quaid, as an implausibly hunky paleoclimatologist, has to rescue Gyllenhaal, his academic decathlete son, from certain death. By the time...
What can't easily be discounted is the coolness factor. As hybrids with the looks, luxury and power of conventional cars emerge, consumers may snap them up. Ryan Brown, 25, a computer consultant from Arlington, Va., just dumped his hot car--an Audi TT roadster--for a Prius. He fell in love with the Prius' technology, peppiness and design. But he is having one problem. The Prius runs silently on electric power at low speeds, and that can be spooky. "Driving it in a parking garage, people don't hear me coming. You don't want to honk, but folks...