Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson reasoned, inflation could lop 40 off every dollar's purchasing power during the year and help price U.S. exports out of world markets; tight money induced by Government borrowing to meet current bills could squeeze interest rates up to 10%, provoke a slump in new housing, and snap the string of 87 months of economic advance. The President's surrender virtually assures passage of the corrective tax this month...
...been raised-despite sizable contributions from such chains as A. & P., Safeway and Giant Food, as well as promises of 850 loaves of bread a day from the baking industry and 1,500 half-pints of milk from local dairies. Discouraged by the turmoil, an abnormal cold snap and a driving rain that turned much of the camp site into a bog, more than 50 of the initial 500 settlers asked to be sent back South...
...gems. $100,000, commenced the auctioneer, and up shot the price. $150,000 . . . $175,000 . . . $225,000. At $300,000, even Jeweler Harry Winston, who had long coveted the stone, was forced to drop out. Winning bid: $305,000. The determined purchaser: Richard Burton, who sent his agents to snap it up for Wife Elizabeth Taylor because he fancies slipping a little love token on her finger now and again. Explained Burton's secretary: "Mr. Burton doesn't give presents for a special occasion. He gives presents because he likes giving them." Said Richard: "My little girl...
...ably backed by a surprisingly supple comedian named Van Johnson, who seems to be searching for-and finding -a new turn to his long career. Together, the old pros take the surplus corn and, like the manufacturers of all that breakfast food they buy, turn it into something with snap, crackle and popularity...
...televison sets. Last week, when President Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection, the network political experts were as flummoxed as the viewers. But four nights later, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated television was in total command. Clearly, TV newscasters are not yet up to snap punditry; but they have mastered the art of reflecting events when dramatic action breaks...