Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Convention officials made the atmosphere of the arena conducive to panoramic t.v. shots in the comforting tones of red, white and blue. Make that Red, White and Blue--especially the balloons, although they got stuck for a while. The lighting allowed professional photographers and the paparazzi to snap good shots. There was plenty of coffee, donuts, and above all, beer...
...They snap at stupid questions: "What's our message?" responds Cheech to one serious newsman. "The message is that there is no message. That generation has grown up. There's even less no message for them...
Momentous as these decisions were, they were announced with little ah" of drama. On Wednesday, when the final three decisions came down, some two dozen reporters jammed the basement pressroom of the Supreme Court building and grabbed for copies, prompting a court employee to snap: "Behave!" But upstairs in the ornate red-draped courtroom, the tourists who occupied most of the seats had little idea what was going on. The black-robed Justices referred to the cases by their uninformative docket names (the quotas case, for example, was identified as Fullilove vs. Klutznick), and Chief Justice Warren Burger announced...
...when it's hot, it's almost a guarantee--somewhere in Boston someone will snap. "City desk to Eddie Moran," the radio squawks around 2:30. "We have a sniper in the Old Westwood Apartments, Norwood--the place is crawling with cops." And he's off, travelling fast down the deserted Southeast Expressway towards Norwood. A few wrong turns, but still there in twenty minutes--just in time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help...
...enables them to control the ball better, will gain extra power by having their strings tightened to as much as 60 to 65 per sq. in. Borg's racquets are strung to a slab-hard 80 per sq. in. The strings are under such tremendous pressure that they often snap even when they are not being used. "At night sometimes in the hotel, they'll wake...