Word: snaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-Americanism. Secretary Dulles resisted the invitation to snap back at French Premier Guy Mollet and other overseas critics of U.S. policies (see FOREIGN NEWS). "I feel the fact that those criticisms are made, freely made," he said, "is one of the greatest tributes to the U.S. that could be made. Because all those countries know that they can criticize the U.S. without any fear of any reprisals, or that we will change the principles which actuate us. We are not trying to run a popularity contest, and we don't give or withhold assistance on the basis...
...agility. And they make a good game, in which one sees how well he can furnish a blue-book from the warehouse of a vacant mind. Even if one does know the material, hour exams permit little time for serious deliberation of a question. The reward goes to the snap-decision, not the really rational consideration...
Loftus announced to the sports world before the contest that Harvard was going to snap Yale's streak of 141 consecutive victories. He had three reasons for his prediction: 1) a close meet is naturally more exciting than a runaway and will therefore get more publicity; 2) if Yale did lose, it would not look bad in doing so because the loss was "predicted"; 3) if Yale won, as anyone who follows swimming knew it would, the Blue would look even better than its winning position merited because it was an "underdog...
...Crimson will be seeking to snap a losing streak that has plagued the team since Jan. 14. After beating Penn the day before that, the Crimson has lost six games in a row and dropped to last place...
...Crimson's floundering basketball team will try to snap its five game losing streak tonight when it meets Princeton at the Tigers' gym. Princeton, however, only a game out of first place in the very tight Ivy League race, is a heavy favorite to defeat the varsity again...