Word: snaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Champion Trabert, who had an nounced his hopeful intention of winning all four of the world's major tennis titles,* was the first to snap. It came in the quarter-finals of the Australian championship, against a canny old (35) party named John Bromwich, who first won Australia's title when Trabert was a lad of eight...
Standing at the top of a West Berlin ski slide last week, Skier Heinz Mannstedt made a snap decision: instead of going all the way back down the hill to get proper straps for his borrowed skis, he would take a chance on the makeshift harness he was wearing. Thus decided, Heinz took off-and a moment later, as he and his skis parted company, gave photographers one of the most arresting skiing photographs in a long time...
...Africa to be one of Dr. Schweitzer's nurses. When ill health forced his wife to give up the mission and return to Europe, Emma Haussknecht became Dr. Schweitzer's chief nurse and helper - a chunky, snap-eyed pillar of strength...
Wildcat. Rickover's working schedule is hard and relentless. He arrives at Tempo 3 in mufti at 8 a.m. and sets to work at top speed. The telephone rings often, but conversations are brief. "Yes," he'll snap. "Send that guy over, but I won't sign on the dotted line." He starts to hang up, then, "No, no. You hear me? No!" and the conversation is suddenly ended. Subordinates come and go in streams. Carbons of every letter are read critically by Rickover and generally scrawled with comments...
...will visit the U.S. this month, predicted a slump in 1954 that will carry the U.S. economy back to the level of the slight 1949 recession. Up to that point, some American economists and businessmen go along with him. But, added Clark, this time the U.S. economy will not snap out of it, as it did in 1949, but will go right on down. There will be no new stimulus to turn the economy back to expansion. Before year's end there may be 7,000,000 unemployed. The only ways to prevent it, according to Clark...