Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Didion book is free of subliminal aggression: among Charlotte's accomplishments is the ability to perform emergency tracheotomies. She can also catch chickens and snap their necks with one smooth motion. Warren is a monstrous lout and a failure whose "face had been coarsened by contempt," whose "mind had been coarsened by self-pity." Their daughter Marin ("good strong hair and an I.Q. of about 103") grows up to be a skyjacker and a fugitive Marxist. Her resemblance to Patty Hearst can hardly be coincidental. Charlotte's second husband is also a familiar type out of the recent...
...Whacker! Whacker! Snap out of it! You're really getting carried away!" I yelled...
...levels. It will take some time for those reserves to be rebuilt. Says an official of Southern Natural Gas Co. of Birmingham, Ala.: "The gas situation is so tight now that we won't be able to fulfill our industrial requirements for three to four weeks. Even a snap of warm weather won't help...
...Cabinet appointments Jimmy Carter made last week was the medium for an important international message. In choosing Yale Economist Richard Cooper as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, the President-elect signaled that his Administration plans not only to try to put more snap and ginger in the U.S. economy but also to seek to orchestrate a revival throughout the rest of the industrialized world as well. Cooper's chief economic credo: No nation is an economic island; all are a part of an interacting global process. For one to flourish, the others must...
...whose newspapers cavort through the private lives of others, Murdoch is fiercely protective of his own. He rarely grants interviews or allows photographers to snap pictures of his four children: a daughter, Prudence, 18, from a first marriage and three children, Elisabeth, 8, Lachlan, 5, and James, 4, by his wife Anna, 32, a stunningly attractive, quick-witted former Sydney Daily Mirror reporter, whom he married in 1967. Six years ago, in London, Anna was the target of a kidnap attempt in which the wife of a Murdoch lieutenant was murdered. Murdoch did not stop his plebeian practice of taking...