Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Franklin sold the corporation's White Star Line, getting about $36,500,000 (TIME, May 17, 1926). That sum approximates the amount of bonds which I. M. M. has owed for years. But President Franklin, astute, did not pay off any bonds. He kept the millions ready to snap up at sacrifice sales, bonds or ships. He has bought overtly no ships during the year, but probably many a bond discreetly offered...
...foot, interspersed between the dangerously gaudy floats, more than 1,000 bandsmen walked, each making a noise on flute or horn or big bass drum. The citizens of Atlantic City stared and stared. The waves of the ocean thundered along a smooth beach and a wind made the flags snap. This was the Annual Atlantic City Beauty Pageant...
Thus supported, M. Daudet could and did snap his fat fingers last week, when friends asked if he would go to jail, saying "Pouff! Pas du tout!" ("Not much...
...movement you describe, and which I did, is not a spring, but a snap-up from the back, the upward impetus being given by a quick pressure of the back of the head against the ground...
During his eight years in Turkey, Mark Bristol has repeatedly "advised" the Young Turks, with a smile or a turtle-snap of his jaw, as occasion warranted. They took his advice in the matter of easing up on the Armenians-now no longer apt to be massacred like rats by Turks. They yielded when Admiral Bristol was grimly defending U. S. interests at the- drafting of the Treaty of Lausanne (TIME Aug. 6, 1923 et ante).* They wondered at his prodigious activities in directing U. S. relief among Baron Wrangel's shattered "White Russians" in Constantinople, and at Smyrna...