Word: snaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walking out from his Moscow residence in a cream suit and white snap-brim hat, with his wife, Tito pointed out the house in Pushkinskaya Street where he lived in the 30's, paid a visit to the famed Lux (renamed Excelsior) Hotel, onetime headquarters of the Comintern, from which hundreds of foreign Communists were dragged in midnight raids during the great purges. Taking refuge from crowds of gaping Russians in an ice-cream parlor, Tito ordered champagne and cakes...
...confident about the President's chance for a full recovery. That chance is indeed good. Perhaps 15%, not more than 35%, of ileitis patients who undergo surgery later have recurrences, sometimes requiring further operations. Ike's prospects are indicated by the remarkable vitality that enabled him to snap back so successfully after his heart attack...
Tough writers are seldom tough guys, but Alexander Fadeyev was an exception. His early novels are Russian-style westerns, full of galloping hooves and gun battles against terrible odds, simple taciturn heroes who figure that the only way to give an order is to snap yes or no. Fadeyev himself lived this kind of life as a Soviet guerrilla during the civil war, and he believed that if it was not yes it must be no. Later, when it became his job to ride herd on Soviet literature for Dictator Stalin, tough Fadeyev made many an author bite the Siberian...
...with success. In disgust he turns his search for meaning to the sayings spelled out by a horse which has followed him home. His wife, Eurydice, however, is left bored by the proceedings, and Susan Howe lends much grace and a sort of charming coquetry to her attempts to snap Orpheus out of his infatuation with the horse. In another departure Cocteau introduces an entirely new character, a glazier named Heurtebise who shows up to replace the pane of glass which Eurydice breaks for good luck. Heurtebise is ultimately identified as a guardian angel to the couple, and Robert Jordan...
Coach "Josh" Williams' varsity golf team journeys to Middleton today to try to snap a three match losing streak, against a mediocre Wesleyan squad...