Word: snaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engine in his P-38 quit and he had to try for a forced landing on a tiny strip between foothills and ocean. His plan: to hit the strip so hard that the nose wheel would break and thus stop the plane quickly. The nose wheel "refused to snap for some reason or other," but Jackson managed to stop the plane anyway. "I got out and then my heart almost stopped. Under my wings were two big bombs: I had forgotten all about them. If that nose wheel had snapped, the bombs would have gone off. That was when...
Judging by Dean Pike's conclusions that "how the viewer receives the experience [of seeing the movie Baby Doll) depends upon his intent," housekeeping is going to be a snap from here on out. If my intent isn't to see the dirt on the kitchen floor-well, it just isn't there...
...President saw it. was that the nation was lurching out of certainty into uncertainty, from faith to doubt, from classlessness to class, from dedication to don't care, in a downgrading of the land of promise into a factory in which the gates of opportunity might snap shut...
Theodore Roosevelt, peering out into the new century with the eye of the new century, was determined with soul of fire that the gates of opportunity would not snap shut. ''I preach the gospel of hope ... I ask that we see to it in our country thaf the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class; but that the line be drawn on the line of conduct...
Wearing paper badges with the letters TEE (Traditional Education Experiment), pupils found themselves snapping to attention when teacher entered the room or called on them to recite. On the grounds girls curtsied, boys doffed hats or bowed for Teacher Ansley; in class, all set to work to cover in seven weeks the 485-page textbook that was supposed to last all year. Though the pupils clearly dislike the bowing, and being punished by time-consuming chores, they took to their new life with surprising enthusiasm. Classroom silence, they found, made paying attention a breeze; required note-taking and constant review...