Word: snap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottle of beer. At a Cherokee Indian Reservation near Sylva, N. C., Chief Standing Deer (Jerry Blythe) capped the President with a headdress of eagle feathers, mumbled some Cherokee which made him the tribe's Chief White Eagle. White Eagle got his feathers off before photographers could snap...
...everything was ready. At 5:28 there was a swish, a snap. Doctors climbed through the supports, felt Bethea's pulse. The spectators closed in. At 5:44½ a. m. physicians pronounced Bethea dead. With a yell the spectators charged from every side, eager hands clawed at the black death hood. In a moment it was torn to shreds. The lucky ones stuffed the bits of black cloth proudly into their pockets. Slowly the crowd straggled away...
...still prefers it to the more "professional" cameras with expensive German lenses pressed upon him by Vogue. Nimble at climbing a mantelpiece while the lady relaxes below, imaginative Mr. Beaton has even gone so far as to dress the Countess of Oxford and Asquith up as a corpse and snap her surrounded by the lilies and wax candles of Death. Maiden voyagers on the Queen Mary were informed this week that they can at last buy for $5 a medal commemorating that recordless event. Maiden voyagers on the record-breaker Normandie last year received medals free before landing...
...laboratory. On the wires were tiny lumps of zinc put there by the galvanizing process. Where the cables rubbed against iron supports of the bridge, those tiny particles were driven into the steel wires, wedging apart the fine crystals of the annealed steel, causing the wire to snap. Coarse-grained, cold-drawn steel wire was found to resist this minute destructive process...
Warned Rotarian Archie Palmer of London: "If you reject that [resolution] it will be reported in every paper in the world that Rotary does not care a snap of the fingers about Peace." Rotarian Palmer was right. Next day's headlines...