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Word: snappings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first down, UMass QB Tim Bryant fumbled the snap and was forced to fall on the ball for a loss. On the next play, Bryant tried to pitch to tailback Kevin Smellie but was hit and tossed wildly. The ball bounced right to the running back, who picked it up and promptly fumbled again. The Crimson again recovered...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Singing (the Blues) in the Rain | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...argument ensues. "In your dreams," someone says. They laugh. The bar door opens. A big, shambling man with a droopy mustache enters with the tender-kneed, left-right stride of a man who's fallen off too many broncos. He is wearing a goose-down vest, a snap-button shirt, jeans and pointy-toed cowboy boots, all of which look out of place in this working man's, New England bar. One of the men at the bar glances over his shoulder. He elbows another. Then another. Soon all the men at the bar are glancing over their shoulders. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene in Connecticut: Game Time | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

That's right. While Harvard's men-in-blue post pictures of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1836, in their lockers, Dartmouth's policemen prefer snap-shots of Dirty Harry...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Green Men-in-Blue | 11/4/1986 | See Source »

...concentrated movement, the passions of the Gypsy soul. Eduardo Serrano crosses the stage with the lacy delicacy of a tightrope walker before erupting in a virile drumbeat, a machine gun, of toe tapping. Manuela Carrasco draws all eyes with an ethereal hauteur that is only accentuated by the jackhammer snap of her commanding heels and the swirl of her long ruffled gown. Some are known chiefly by their nicknames, which, according to Gypsy custom, are short and pungent: El Chocolate, for example, or El Biencasao (the Well-Married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Flamenco, Simple and Smashing | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

Leverett added another touchdown on the closing play of the game, when a fumbled Kirkland snap was picked up by Leverett's Chris Dole in the end zone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Locomotive | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

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