Word: snipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's growing confidence led to broadcasting the sessions on radio and TV from film and tape, thus putting the President's words to the press on public record in direct quotes for the first time. While Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty reserved the right to snip pieces out of the tape or film, he has rarely used...
...final chapter, the story now closes where Gibbon once intended to end it, with the fall of the Western Empire. Into the basket, too, went nearly all of Gibbon's footnotes, by actual count almost a quarter of the original history. Wherever Editor Saunders had to snip the narrative line, he spliced it together with summaries. His estimate of the final collaboration: "96% Gibbon and 4% Saunders...
Doctors used to snip out tonsils right & left. They thought that the tonsils did no good, that large tonsils were always infected, that infected tonsils could cause all manner of serious diseases, so they were "better out." The operation was supposed to be so trivial that any physician could do it in his office. The result, for a generation or so, was "the massacre of the tonsil...
...ranged far behind enemy lines, cutting off two companies. All units were cocky and enthusiastic; black shiners blossomed on both sides. Young officers argued bitterly with umpires. Americans of the 2nd Battalion, 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, slipped off nightly to deflate the tires of "enemy" vehicles, disable engines and snip telephone wires...
...sight of the forceps, several women in the audience of 1,500, gathered around multiple sets, seemed about to faint. But more of the baby's head appeared and Dr. Ullery laid aside the forceps, decided that only some cutting of the perineum was needed. A quick snip, and the whole head appeared. The rest of the 9¾-lb. baby soon followed. Said Ullery: "This is a boy." The crowd applauded...