Word: snaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...electrocortin, they put him on a salt-free diet. All he had to do was to promise not to take any food or drink away from the center. He could work on its house newspaper or play golf or go into Bethesda for the movies. But it was no snap: he lost 15 pounds in a week...
...Creek. Next day reporters were allowed on the ranch to watch the President sign the social security bill and invited to stick around and watch him broil a dozen thick steaks on an outdoor grill. Hoover ambled up to the grill. As usual, he was grimly hanging onto his snap-brim hat. Ike invited Hoover to help with the steaks. Hoover seemed reluctant but finally complied when Ike gave him a long-handled fork and suggested: "Here, turn that fella over...
...Eakins nor Homer cared a rap for the quality thought indispensable in Europe: art which conceals art. They achieved something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at Snap the Whip can remember what it felt like to get out of school and run barefoot on the grass...
...Snap, Crackle...
...efforts to scour away some of this blackness, Jessie used to gather mountaineer women into meetings. She would suddenly stand up and snap, "I smell sin," then launch into a sermon reeking with brimstone. One of Gatineau's few doctors recalls: "These ignorant women didn't know how Jessie had found them out, and were terrified when she started telling them the agonies of hellfire. Next day my office would be full of hysterical women about to have a breakdown...