Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yellow Peak. Spruce but hatless, Hoagy had flown into Indianapolis from Los Angeles earlier in the week, dashed straight to the Murat Theater to oversee the rehearsals. Conductor Sevitzky* made room for him next to the podium, and after the photographers had finished crawling under the music racks to snap the new composer, the orchestra got down to work. Hoagy stood by intently, rolling his tongue in his cheeks as he always does when he is composing or listening to a song he has recorded...
...which considered by many one of its greatest strength would suffer drastically--if not be too destroyed. Also the next vacancy in any department could be summarily cancelled given to another department, instructors assistant professors could have no sense security at Harvard, and they would be quite to snap up permanent positions elsewhere...
...freshmen, while not yet polished are a high scoring outfit, and the Eaglets will have to come up with a lot more fight and better team play than Tufts or BU if they expect to snap the Yardlings' modest win streak...
...full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing to a popular hero...
...meets the ball. The usual forward stride, he thinks, is a waste motion and throws a power hitter off balance. To get maximum power into his own swats, Leftfielder Kiner uses the same delicate combination that is found in a perfect golf swing-pivot, wrist-snap and timing...