Word: snapping
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...experience of flying at literally twice the speed of sound was more dramatic in what did not happen than in what did. My neck did not snap on takeoff, nor did I require a straitjacket to remain in my seat. The plane did not jerk its way up in roller-coaster fashion or plunge straight to the earth for landing. 1 had a feeling of rather unsettling normalcy...
...really that difficult? It doesn't appear to be. In fact, it looks like a snap. But then how does one know until one has tried? One did: see following story...
...peers when it came to observing human foibles with a kind of wry delight, and he was undoubted master of the unique form that he devised: the line that runs on and on, metric foot after metric foot, only to snap to an end with an outrageously contrived rhyme that usually manages to contain a real groaner of a pun. When Ogden Nash died of heart failure last week at 68 in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, he left an affectionate and inventive verbal legacy. Said his friend and editor Ned Bradford of Little, Brown: "He reflected...
Baseball may be a deadly dull game to play compared to an individual sport like squash, but Vida Blue and Sonny Siebert can still snap 100,000 heart strings...
...paid for a work of art at public auction. The winning bid belonged to Wildenstein & Co., and young Alec Wildenstein explained at the time, with a straight face, that the family gallery had bought it because his great-grandfather had been in love with it and left instructions to snap it up if it ever came on the market. But last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced proudly that the Velásquez was theirs, admitting Wildenstein had bid on it by arrangement with them. Met Director Thomas Moving explained that the bulk of the money came from...