Word: snaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army already had a stock of more than 1,000,000 overcoats, but the new coat had a remarkable new feature: attached to the back hem were two flaps designed as leggings, to snap around the ankles and zip up the sides. Since the coat had never been tested in the field, no one knew just how remarkable it was, until 349,000 were shipped to Korea and Japan in 1950. In the field, G.I.s found that the bulky garment was too heavy (8 Ibs.) and too long. If a soldier tried to run in the coat, the leggings (which...
Agent Braumoeller explained that agents of his bureau often have trouble proving cases against dope peddlers because it is simply the word of the agents against the word of the seller. He wanted the Narcotics Bureau to hire a photographer to snap pictures of meetings between agents and peddlers to use as evidence. Would Reck assign a photographer to make a test? Gladly, City Editor Reck called in Keith Dennison, 54, his veteran chief photographer...
...advantage. He offered a coalition with "all those who accept apartheid in full sincerity," hoping thereby to gain the two-thirds majority which he needs, but does not have, to 1) disenfranchise 48,000 half-caste voters in Cape Province, 2) eliminate English as an equal official language, 3) snap the last tenuous threads that bind South Africa to the Commonwealth...
Socialists have occasionally warned that Churchill might try to take advantage of the patriotic euphoria of the coronation to call a "snap general election." But the P. M. himself is said to feel that such exploitation of the coronation would boomerang. Having gone through three general elections in eight years, he is convinced that "the country is sick of elections" and wants a rest from partisan strife. This is why the Churchill government has taken pains to press its denationalization and decontrol programs with calculated gentleness...
That yapping you heard was not from the American church members, but from the same pack of lefties who snap at the heels of any who try to expose their ilk ... Why shouldn't the churches be investigated...