Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religious harmony, the new Disneyland would provide badly needed jobs for an economically depressed area. Poor beggars like Muammar Khaddafy would no longer have to idle away their time in fruitless militarism. Instead, he could get a job dressing up as Donald Duck or running a concession stand selling snap-on Mickey ears for yamulkas...
...heaving open a start-up lever of a large turbine engine. Then, with the lights reflecting in her eyeglasses, she bounces up and down, patting the side of the machine and saying, "Come on! Big one, big one! Here it comes!" Her friend Janet Salo, by contrast, tends to snap the lever down; it is all in the elbow and in her whispered incantation: "Seven-seven-seven-se ven." Both of them admit that they will squeal for any jackpot from 50 cents up. At one point, when they have pooled their money with a third friend to play...
...winner of the election. The former President's departure has persuaded most legislators in his New Society Movement (K.B.L.) / to promise Aquino their backing. A new resolution recognizing her as the victor is expected to pass, but it is questionable whether it will be valid in constitutional terms. The snap election, which Marcos claimed to have won, 54% to 46%, was so tainted by fraud, most of it perpetrated by Marcos supporters, that it is now impossible to say with certainty which candidate prevailed...
Apple is promoting its new product on the college market with the same marketing techniques that helped it snap up a large share of the college market two years ago with the highly publicized Macintosh. The computer firm invited college computer officials from all over the country to attend an all-expenses-paid information seminar on the MacPlus in San Francisco in January...
Last Saturday night the men's hockey team (19-6-1 overall, 18-3 ECAC) had nothing to gain and everything to lose, and lose it did. It took Clarkson's Charlie Meitner 3:43 of overtime to snap Harvard's eight game win streak, and only 30 seconds of the first period to separate Scott Fusco`s shoulder...