Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Again. To some, the parallel between last week and 1919-when the fall of commodity prices heralded the 1920 "snap" depression-was so clear that one U.S. Department of Commerce expert remarked: "If a modern Rip Van Winkle had gone to sleep in 1919 . . . and awakened in 1946, he would feel very much at home...
First evidence of the rapid Varsity improvement predicted by Dick Harlow after the Princeton game was shown yesterday as the "A" team backs ran through spinners and reverses with a snap and precision that was wonderful to behold, and a deception that baffled even the most astute observers on the sidelines...
Beer gardens were going full swing; here & there a brass band blared out the Blue Danube. G.I.s and Germans jammed merry-go-rounds and snap-the-whips at the Theresien-Platz, theaters and the opera in Prinzregenten-Strasse. As throughout Germany, excellent performances were played to jampacked audiences in roofless theaters. U.S. plays were a fad. Thornton Wilder's fantasy, The Skin of Our Teeth, (TIME, Nov. 30, 1942), was playing to full houses in Munich (as in London). Even Munich's Schaubuden, satirical little theaters like Am Platzl, whose stock in trade is poking fun at politicians...
Then the plane may flip in a violent roll, or snap into a dive as the wing loses its lift. Racked by enormous forces, the plane may suddenly disintegrate in midair...
...Short & the Long. Surveying the histories of several thousand psychoanalyzed patients, Psychoanalyst Joseph Wilder of Manhattan recently reported that there were few "cures," but "good results" (i.e., substantial improvement) in some 30-40% of the patients. About 20% of neurotics snap out of their funk without psychiatric treatment. Dr. Wilder's most significant finding: "brief psychotherapy," i.e., 30 to 40 sessions, produces just as good results as the prolonged orthodox treatment...