Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK--Brian Henesey ran for two touchdowns here Saturday to help snap Bucknell's three-game losing streak...
...briefcase. The notebook-size machine has a standard keyboard and an easy-to-read backlit screen. Most important, the 6-lb. machine is the only one of its size that accepts standard 3.5-in. diskettes, which will enable users to transfer files from laptop to desktop in a snap. "This one is easy to sell. It is the Mercedes of computers," said Jim Johnston, a salesman at Atlanta's PC Mart...
...feel very happy for Brian Kotz. As happy as I feel disappointed for Derek Lewis," said Restic, referring to Harvard's punter who fumbled two snaps Saturday. The first fumble gave Dartmouth the ball at Harvard's 9-yd. line prior to the goal-line stand and the second, when Lewis fumbled the snap out of the end zone, gave Dartmouth a safety and a 5-3 lead...
Even the casual listener who knows Jones mostly from her 1979 hit single, Chuck E.'s in Love, will recognize the smoky snap of her voice in the opening moments of the fine first track, The Horses. But just as quickly, the changes will be obvious. The jazz inflections and beat intonations are still intact, but all the mannerisms have been pared away. Jones isn't hiding behind artifice anymore. Her lyrics may be enigmatic, her music an eccentric mixture of rock, electrified hipster jazz and reggae, but she makes it all flow by the sheer force of her feeling...
Some of these circuits are long and slow, so that consequences may take years or generations to manifest themselves. That helps sustain the cowboy myth that nature is a neutral, unchanging backdrop. Moreover, evolution seems to have wired our brains to respond to rapid changes, the snap of a twig or a movement in the alley, and to ignore slow ones. When these consequences do start to show up, we don't notice them. Anyone who has ever been amazed by an old photograph of himself or herself can attest to the merciful ignorance of slow change, that is, aging...