Word: snappings
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Nations have a peculiarly touchy psychology, a disposition to snap at slender affronts to dignity. With truculence, commonly considered a component of prestige, diplomats indulge in politely phrased wars of words. Were it not for the glint of steel in each polished sentence, these verbal disputes would have an element of petulant humor...
...Several instances of the violence of the police, which were entirely unprovoked by the workers were the throwing of tear gas bombs, and the attack on the pickets and the newspaper reporters, when the latter had come to snap the mounted police on their ridiculous steeds...
...taking pictures of Mazie on the Mount is bad, consider how much worse is taking pictures of Holden Chapel without Mazie. Two sleuths were doing that Sunday afternoon. They would sneak to one side and snap a picture, then sneak to the other side and snap another. And I then pulled up my coat and collar and slid by, for I remembered that it is very easy to get suppressed in this town. All of which reminds me that I wrote a version of the story in the last "Mercury" merely to prove that I had read it and lived...
Destroying icebergs is dangerous work. Usually a small boat puts off from the cutter carrying high explosives, which are planted at accessible spots. Sometimes, though, overhanging ledges threaten to snap off with cold, pitiless destruction. Here mines are floated down. Often a berg is too enormous to destroy; one has been sighted 65 feet _ high, 1690 feet long, with an estimated content of 36,000,000 tons of ice, of which about 8/9 was. under water out of view. In such cases the guard cutter can only follow until the mass "calves," lets small chunks break off. These accompany...
...they were dressed in a manner unusual to their sex, whether or not the book opened up large opportunities for them, or whether or not we happened to know them. We mention that last possibility for the sake of those who think this reviewing job is any snap. There's nothing so disconcerting as to be waked up at four in the morning by someone who wants to take a sock at your jaw. We had hoped there'd be a few cripples in the cast to make nasty remarks about, but they all looked too healthy to take...