Word: snappings
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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...
...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...
...actress fervently hoped that the marriage would end "the unwarranted persecution by the international press which has made our life hell by destroying our privacy." Only the week before, during one of her rare excursions from her apartment, Rossellini had had a brawl with photographers waiting to snap them. Complained Ingrid: "I cannot even take my baby out of this house because I know there will be a battery of photographers badgering us. I cannot even go to take a peep at my baby on the terrace because [of the] photographers...
...forty minutes the varsity lacrosse team played a favored Dartmouth ten an even game Saturday, but a slight letdown in the last ten minutes was just enough to enable the Indians to snap an 8 to 8 tie and win their tenth consecutive victory over Harvard, 11 to 8. The game was played on the Business School Field before several hundred fans, the largest crowd of the season...
Munch's interpretation of the great D Major Mass was by all odds more dramatic. He achieved this effect by having everything played faster, with more dynamic contrasts, and with more snap. Whether or not yesterday's concert was good or bad, depends largely on the individual. But nobody who heard it can deny that it led to an extremely exciting afternoon...