Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homemade preserves behind her and old-fashioned baskets above, Martha Stewart is right where she belongs -- in her big country kitchen. She is spinning sugar, a complex task that will result in a haze of edible angel hair adorning a dessert of red currant ice cream in brandy-snap cups. As she slings the liquid sugar onto a laundry rack with a flick of her whisk, Stewart effortlessly alternates advice ("The hot sugar can get stuck in your cats' fur. Keep them out of the room") and anecdotes ("I forgot to buy regular squares of beeswax, so I am taking...
Were there in 1964 (or for that matter, have there ever been) FBI men like Anderson, who does not seem to own a black suit or a snap-brim fedora, who talks like a human being instead of a prerecorded announcement and shuffles slyly rather than striding officiously through an investigation? Were there, have there been, agents like his immediate superior Ward (Willem Dafoe), hiding a passionate moral (as opposed to a merely legalistic) commitment to the civil rights movement behind a prim manner and a pair of half horn-rims...
Restic's Big Play theory is applicable to a few games. Cornell beat Harvard because the Crimson could not snap the ball to its punter. Twice, snaps sailed over Harvard punter Alan Hall's head. On both occasions Cornell got safeties...
Yovicsin sent Champi in for Lalich, and the back-up responded with a 15-yd. touchdown pass to right end Bruce Freeman '71 with time running down. A bad snap from center spoiled the conversion attempt, and Harvard went into the half down...
Leveraged buyouts come in many different varieties. In some cases, corporate raiders snap up a company with borrowed money, then throw out the management, dismember the firm and sell off the pieces. But in other deals, including the proposed buyout of RJR Nabisco, the managers initiate the action. In one of the least controversial types of management buyouts, the executives of a particular division buy it from a larger parent company. These managers are out to prove they can run their own show -- and run it better than some sprawling conglomerate that has grown inattentive or slothlike in responding...