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Word: snaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Captain and catcher John Davis, a .345 hitter until this week, is in the throes of a temporary slump, though he should snap out of it this afternoon, and give the Crimson added power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine to Meet Penn Today | 4/24/1959 | See Source »

...Tommy Kirk), who thereupon starts sprouting long white hair, soon finds himself living a dog's life. His father (Fred MacMurray) is of course horrified to hear him bark like a dog. The young pups who make up most of Producer Disney's audience will snap happily at this scented rubber bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...developed machinery capable of doing it. The rig that appeals to AMSOC is the Cuss I (named for Continental, Union, Shell and Superior companies), a 3,000-ton barge with a 98-ft. drilling derrick mounted amidships. The drill is carried on gimbals, so that heavy seas will not snap the drill pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down to Moho | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...gallery of the House of Commons one afternoon last week, a snap-eyed, tart-tongued spinster in electric blue coat and homemade pink wool beret craned triumphantly forward to watch Oxford M.P. Lawrence Turner step forward with a handsomely curlicued petition. Pointing to two brown paper parcels full of signatures, Turner started to read: "Regretting the innovations already being introduced and fearing that further mutilations will take place when the copyright expires in the Year of our Lord 1961, we . . . humbly pray that steps will be taken to perpetuate the copyrights in some public cultural body . . ." Occasion: the climax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Object All Sublime | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Still, the trigger-happy actors flash their hardware with a difference. Actor Martin makes a snap shot that snips a horseman's reins at 20 paces. Young (18) Nelson, a popular rock-'n'-roll singer, gets little opportunity to show off his tonsils in his first Hollywood movie, but he demonstrates a remarkable proficiency with a Colt .45. Wayne, of course, walks off with the show-not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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