Word: snappings
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...Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy ax, put her left hand on a concrete pipe, chopped at it viciously. At the third...
...Because he often moves his lips when in a tight spot, a sportswriter asked him if he prayed as he played. "Heck no," he answered. "When I find myself letting down, I give myself a pep talk. I say 'come on now, for cripe's sake, snap out of it. Quit playing like a dope...
...dropped into a box for Willie Winn. When at week's end he unlocked his box, there were 342 silver dollars for Willie. Since he is a broadcaster of uncertain habits and sudden impulses, the WAAF engineer keeps an alert finger near the control switch, ready to snap him off the air if he should start heading for the stable...
...image of the Goddess Ubasti from the 6th Century B.C. Comparable to great similar bronzes in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the Cleveland Museum and the Bliss Collection in Washington, D. C., it possesses, as the museum eloquently pointed out, "in a static pose, the strength and snap of a taut bow string...
Apparently let down after their three league game weekend, the Mitchellmen made eight errors in the field against the Jumbos Monday to lose 13-4. Today the Crimson should snap back into their, stride, that has brought the circuit lead and the best Varsity of several years...