Word: snappings
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...come. At any rate, the issue, all hotted up by Evatt's dealings with Molotov, offered too good an opportunity for the Liberals to pass up. Last week, Prime Minister Menzies, with 18 months of office still to run, prepared to dissolve Parliament and call for a snap election in December...
...this point, Ron Eikenberry who had just entered the game for John Simourian at wingback, fumbled, and Cornell scored on the next play. The Crimson had lined up in a formation to the left, and the snap from center was slightly low, bouncing off Eikenberry's hands. Instead of pouncing on the ball, he tried to pick it up, but the onrushing Cornell line jarred the ball away from him, and Paul Boguski recovered. DeGraaf on the first play from the eight-yard line, faked a hand-off to Cy Benson, and then skirted his own left end to score...
...other pleasing new productions last week: ¶ Choreographer Ashton's Rinaldo and Armida, in which a gallant (Somes) pursues an enchanted girl (Beriosova), braving the hazards presented by a misty forest and a jealous witch (at one point she lays him low with an osteopath's neck-snap). The couple goes into some fairly passionate courting, including one handsome lift in which she climbs to his shoulders with the agility of a mountain goat...
OUTSMARTING the American League was a snap compared to the job Casey Stengel faces when he takes on the Dodgers. The Yanks are old pros who know the game too well to play it by the book. Casey's spectacular hunches will have them shooting for a big inning at the first break. Batters expected to sacrifice are likely to bluff a bunt to muss up the infield and then hit away; runners will gamble and go for extra bases. Infield and outfield alike are capable of making the game-saving catch, the impossible double play that rescues...
...twist is set by heat, a sort of permanent-wave process. Then the fibers are broken down into single filaments, and those with a right-hand twist are plaited with others with a left-hand twist. The result is a soft, curly yarn that will stretch and snap back...