Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...development. The British put on an unprecedented peacetime austerity program, jumped their exports enormously, rebuilt their war-shattered cities, and installed a giant socialization scheme in a short five years. America, meanwhile, insisted on devaluation, of the pound, which turned out to be just the stimulant needed to snap Britain out of the dollar doldrums...
...second period, Dudley's John Whittaker tied the game up at 12 to 12 on a long pass from McMorrow. Barbour then piled up Yale's lead with a snap pass to Hager for a touchdown...
Until this year, shrewd centers had attempted to draw defensive linemen offside by pretending to snap the ball. If a player was lured offside by this maneuver, he was guilty of an offside foul, and his team was penalized five yards...
...rule will eliminate such tactics. Once the center has assumed his stance and has adjusted the ball for the snap, he may neither move the ball nor change its position in any way until actually snapping...
...journalism schools the faculty consists largely of unsuccessful newspapermen ... At the worst [the schools] are a fraud, providing snap courses for lazy students; at the best they are a delusion, giving graduates a mistaken notion that they have received valuable training...