Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three boys coming from the Garden Street graveyard. Young men of slight stature, who might, given sufficient provocation, carry a fork from the school cafeteria and extort dimes in the bathroom. A girl glides by and three heads snap with the comic suddenness of recalcitrant window shades. "Fine bod," they say behind their hands and pass on to higher conquest. They stop to dispute, and not knowing the civilized use of velleities, fall to pushing. "Hic Rhodus, hic salta," cries one. They just shove him again, which is clearly what he deserves...
...again as launchers, and contestants were separated into nonprofessionals and professionals (subscribers or people employed in aviation). As the paper planes swooped, looped and soared around the 96-ft.-high dome, Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel, 52, called out the maneuvers on a p.a. system: "There's a snap stall-a pair of Immelmanns and a chandelle-a barrel roll-and a series of butterfly dives...
...spectacle features Finley's distinctive double-clutch lecture shuffle: from the podium two steps to the left, a pause, an extension of the right foot accompanied by a sweep of the hand, a snap of the microphone cord, two steps back to the right, a resting of the right arm on the podium and a flourishing of the left arm in a classic pose. Some are amused. But by the end of the fall term, only 200 of the 500 students in the course were attending lectures...
...prerogative in the selection process was challenged last year when officialdom proposed that each House should contain a cross section of the student body. Finley's eyebrows still snap at references to the arbitrary plan of placement. "We mustn't have the authorities shunt men about. The Houses will be driven to uniformity." Eliot House seniors steeped in the Finley tradition of taste and style are equally opposed to random selection. Says one Eliot House upperclassman of the sophomores admitted under the new system, "You can see a certain sloppiness now in the dining hall. You know, the Winthrop House...
...fact Cornell's hotshot divers Jay Moses and Tom Paxton swept their event in a December meet with Eastern leader Yale, and either one of them could snap the five-meet winning streak of Harvard ace Bill Murphy...