Snick

I reached out and snicked a white thread that hung from her sleeve.

Once the furore had been dampened, the minuscule snick on Billy's knee covered in a Superman plaster[…], I found my mind flashing through multiple matters, like that of a drowning person, only more optimistic.

Then it grew louder, and suddenly there came from the window a sharp metallic snick.

Despite differences in race and social background, they and hundreds of other Snicks joined together to commit themselves to defeating the powerful, often sadistic racism that had denied southern blacks equality with whites since the end of the Civil War a century earlier.