Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest of The Last Laugh, it is, unfortunately, low grade Perelman. For the last few years of his life, his writing lacked much of the snap that distinguished such earlier collections as Crazy Like a Fox and The Road to Miltdown. The writing in the last volume he published while alive, Eastward Ha! was somehow less densely funny, less wildly allusive than it had been before. The pieces in The Last Laugh, all of which originally appeared in The New Yorker, represent more of the same. In these last stories Perelman drifts more and more into a cosmic nostalgia which...
Cuccia sprinted out to the left and Ailard took the snap, waited for the Penn linemen to converge on him, and then dumped a screen pass to Callinan, who ran 14 yards to the Penn 34. The quarter ended three running plays later, with Harvard at the 17-yard line...
Bobby Leo's mark of 827 fell on that opening run. From there it was 123 to Clasby, and he was 22 away when he took the handoff from Cuccia on the 105th snap of the afternoon. He was 44 in front when he stopped running...
...electronic factory is ready for the casting, the metal is automatically rolled from there over to the proper machining center, which selects the right tool from a large drum of some 40 accessories and begins to customize the casting according to computerized blueprints. If a drill bit should suddenly snap in two, the machine senses the problem, selects another one to replace it and finishes the job. Castings proceed automatically to other machines, and emerge as finished parts in three days, on average, compared with the three months typically required in traditional metalworking shops, where time-consuming setup and alignment...
...snap wasn't good. It was low, skimming the ground. Ron Cuccia, the holder, had to make a nifty play just to get the ball off the grass. Villanueva's timing was messed up. He hesitated...