Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massport official Richard Baldwin blamed an increase in planes over Cambridge during this winter's cold snap to prevailing northwest winds. "This summer shouldn't be as bad as that period," Baldwin added...
...long, polished table, read pompous statements to one another and still wondered what the hell was going to happen. David Aaron, disarmament planner-now a White House presence-reached across the table to light the cigarette of a Russian and dozens of bored cameramen came alive. Snap, click, whirr. Around the world a thin ray of hope shone from the morning's front pages immortalizing the symbolic U.S.-Soviet cooperation. By evening, with a little vodka under their collective belts, there was reason to believe the two superpowers might at last see the folly of a nuclear arms race...
...decades, however, has a single new vegetable stirred such horti-culinary hyperbole as a rogue one-chance-in-a-million mutant developed over years by the Gallatin Valley Seed Co. of Twin Falls, Idaho. It is called the Sugar Snap pea. Somewhat like a snow pea, but with plump, juicy kernels and melt-in-the-mouth pods, it also has some of the characteristics of a snap green bean and should be eaten pod and all. The Burpee catalogue, which gives it cover-sweetie treatment, calls it "truly fantastic." The authoritative magazine of the venerable Massachusetts Horticultural Society joins...
Some Sugar Snap enthusiasts go so far as to predict that the new, wholly edible pea may surpass the tomato as the American home gardeners' top crop. The Michelin of munchables, All-America Selections, based in Los Altos, Calif., has not just given the Sugar Snap a rare gold medal and pronounced it the most successful new strain it has savored in its 46 years; it has also issued a recipe leaflet (500). Suggested treatments range from creamed Sugar Snap soup to Sugar Snap tempura. Actually, says the vegetable's inventor, Gallatin's lanky. Calvin Lamborn...
...simply the pleasures of that word tamer. "Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. This is the great advantage they possess, which more than makes up for the little they usually earn." The words may jump and snarl, snap and bite when Brenan sits down at his own desk. But when they march onto his page, they almost always perform marvelous and original tricks. - Gerald Clarke