Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, that it would be as bad as this, but Wilkinson knew he would have his troubles when he took the job. He inherited a team that had won 42 and lost 27 in the previous five years, a winner but a peculiarly brittle one with a tendency to snap around play-off time. Many of the regulars were also feuding with Owner Bill Bidwill, whom they accused of penny pinching. Terry Metcalf, the team's star running back and its sole threat to the outside, had played out his option and gone off to the Toronto Argonauts...
...Snapping is a word coined to describe the sudden, drastic alteration or even total transformation of personality that apparently occurs in mass psychological therapies and spiritualistic cults like est, TM. Hare Krishna, the Moonies, Scientology, the Born-Again Christian movement, the Children of God, the Love Family, and so forth. An interested observer goes to a cult meeting, becomes convinced, and the effect is as if someone had reached out and changed the channel on his mind's television screen--snap--and now he gets channel 12 instead of channel 5. To reach him, you have to broadcast...
...hobbled. Three key regulars-Centerfielder Mickey Rivers, All-Star Second Baseman Willie Randolph and First Baseman Chris Chambliss -missed one or more of the early Series games. Other Yankees suffered nagging injuries that did not remove them from the lineup, but slowed them a step or took some snap from their bats...
Columbia then went for the two-point conversion and caught the Crimson defense napping as Ciulla took the snap from center and carried the ball over. The Lions...
...central banks or stashed in private hoards. Buyers essentially must bid against each other to purchase newly mined gold-and production in South Africa, the leading mining nation, fell to 700 tons last year, 30% less than in 1970. Moreover, makers of jewelry and industrial products are expected to snap up about 70% of what new gold does become available this year, leaving still less for the goldbugs to fight over...