Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During her stay in Nassau, Miss Mehrtens found out, too, that Mrs. Marquand had once applied for a job as a TIME Inc. researcher. "I said I could speak five languages and I thought they would snap me up," she told Miss Mehrtens, "but just about the time they were getting around to thinking about it I got married...
...Field last week to see what the Air Force was doing about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders for more because of presidential budget cuts...
Both teams are, on paper, equally powerful. Each squad has beaten the same teams. Only Princeton managed to snap the Crimson's unbeaten record...
Four days, later, on February 9, Bill Barclay's hungry five and John Chase's hockey team get going. The basketball team will attempt to snap out of an eight game losing streak against Army at West Point, and the much-improved sextet will get its third try of the season against undefeated Boston College at the Arena...
Unlike his fireballing predecessor, the late William S. Knudsen, C.E. hates to make snap decisions, likes to sleep on the hard ones. He seldom relaxes. When he does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one again!" One of his favorites is about two Englishwomen who were being chauffeur-driven around Detroit in a G.M. limousine. Someone touched a hydraulic window-lift button by mistake, and the glass partition dropped, letting in a blast of air that billowed up the guests' skirts. "Gracious!" cried...