Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck. Top challenger Willi Lehner, 36, a 230-lb. stonemason from Unterpeissen-berg, was fond of hanging suspended by his finger from the claw of a derrick. Dressed in their holiday leather knickers and green felt hats, the wrestlers wound their legs around steel stools (wooden chairs would snap like toothpicks), and at the umpire's command "Auf!" tried to pull their opponent's hand across a line drawn a foot from the center of the oak table. During minute-long deadlocks, noses began to bleed from the strain...
...scene, for anybody who has indulged in Nevada's favorite public pastime, was familiar. The room was quiet except for the snap of cards, the clack of poker chips and murmuring of the players. At nine tables, the gamblers played stud, low ball, twenty-one or panguingui. The cards were dealt, the winners raked in the pots. Then, at 3:20 p.m., a bugle blew, and all the players got up and went back to their cells. Gambling at Nevada's State Prison in Carson City was closed...
...Soldiers Field tomorrow plenty of questions should be cleared up. Several were supposed to be answered in last week's game, but the outcome of that one left only more questions: Can the varsity snap back after that tough disappointment? Just how good is the Crimson? Can it beat Columbia's "muddle huddle"? Even: Will success spoil Charlie Ravenel...
Landing in Miami after a voodoo-drummed idyl in Haiti with Omaha Dentist Miles Graham (real name: Marlon Brando), sultry Eurasian student Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong...
...mightily to edge upstart Duke, 14-13. Once-great Michigan State, still reeling from last season's debacle (three wins, five defeats), got off on the wrong foot by losing 9-7 to Texas A. & M. Outweighed 20 Ibs. a man, stubborn Tennessee upset Auburn, 3-0, to snap major college football's longest unbeaten string at 24 games...