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Word: snapping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...folks are still buying. After six years as Johnny Carson's No. 2 man on NBC's Tonight Show, he ranks as TV's most effective salesman since the heyday of Arthur Godfrey. Besides appearing with Carson, McMahon hosts his own daily game show (Snap Judgment), and is getting ready to appear in his second movie, The Killing Time, in which he will play an F. Lee Bailey kind of lawyer defending a pathological killer. This week he moves up to No. 1 for a day as executive producer, director and master of ceremonies of the Inaugural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Announcers: The Pitchman | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...strong, facing a homemade altar and rolling Buddhist prayer beads between their hands. "Nam-myo-ho-renge-kyo," they chant over and over. "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo." Suddenly four pretty girls leap up in cheerleading animation. Stealing a popular rock tune, they sing: "Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh." Hips snap, arms flash. "Chant Daimoku!"* Snap. "Yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh." Flash. "Dai-Gohonzon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: The Power of Positive Chanting | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...before violence was de-emphasized, says that he spent the whole summer in the cutting room. But even with all of Mantley's frantic re-editing, the installment two weeks ago contained three gunshot killings, one death by trampling, two knife attacks, three fights and a threat to snap someone's neck "like a dry twig." Says Mantley: "It is difficult for me to continue making Gunsmoke. My position is that if you want to take violence off television, then you have to take drama off television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Pacification by Attrition | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...young Marine loped over to the pretty young lady in the red dress, gave her a big hug and kiss. Then Chuck Robb and Lynda politely but plainly told newsmen they wanted to be alone to enjoy his R & R after combat in Viet Nam. A photographer did snap them atop an elephant but, aside from that, they were left in peace for five days of sightseeing and shopping. Then, off to Danang for Chuck, home to a Texas Christmas for Lynda and back, as she said, to "writing each other every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 20, 1968 | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...stick with a receiver coming out of the backfield. One scout ranks him with top Pro Linebackers Tommy Nobis and Dick Butkus. The only difference "is that Pritchard is one inch shorter." Enyart, who also rates high as an offensive fullback, is "a hardnosed kid who can make those snap judgments that give him a jump on the play." Known for his bone-jarring tackles, he lives up to his nickname: "Earthquake." Babich is an equally deadly tackier, but with an extra shot of adrenaline. He may be the fleetest of college linebackers, and the pros laud his ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: TIME's All-America: The Pick of the Pros | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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