Word: snappings
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...radar equipment. Neither plane carries guns, only rockets. The Starfire's twenty-four 2.75-in. rockets are tucked away in a ring around its blunt, black, radar-packed nose. In normal flight they are covered by faired-in doors. An instant before the rockets are fired, the doors snap open. They snap shut again in a flash...
Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni had the biggest personal triumph, mesmerized the audience with his singing and acting as the Swiss hero: when he fired his crossbow and the apple on his son's head split with a stage-trick snap, there was a loud and relieved cheer...
...People in Virginia have to pay federal income taxes too," the agent assured him. For a dreadful moment it was so quiet in the office that you could hear a tendon snap. "You're kidding," gasped the doc. But everyone thought the doc was kidding. Last week in federal court, even his own lawyer suggested that his story was "fantastic." The judge cried "Preposterous!" and fined...
...succeeded in pulling Reed out of the red, but he has never quite finished the job of pulling its reputation out of the pink. That, says he, will be something for the academic man from Cambridge to do -"And I say to him: snap to it, brother...
...Jimmy & Snap. In four years, he also changed in other ways. At twelve he had been a stiff, lonely boy who lived in a big, cold house with no one except his retinue of chamberlains and servants to keep him company. Wherever he went the chamberlains followed, and he seemed unable to make the simplest decision without consulting them. To straightforward Mrs. Vining, that was no way for a boy to grow up, and she decided to do something about...