Word: glower
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...twelfth day, Secretary of the Army Robert Ten Broeck Stevens sat, grey-faced, before the stare of the television cameras. Across a crouched pack of news photographers, he faced the glower of Senator Joe McCarthy. The Secretary's right eye blinked irregularly and his right cheek twitched as he tried to follow the curves and hooks in McCarthy's questions. Using all of his formidable tricks of crossexamination, the Senator was trying to confuse the Secretary into a key admission: he wanted Stevens to say that McCarthy & Co. had never "threatened" the Army in an effort...
Unmatched Record. Big Bill was the John Barrymore of the courts, and the crowds loved it, even when he hurled his racket skyward shrieking. "Ye gods! Is there no justice?" after a linesman made a close call against him. Hands on hips, defying all tennis convention, Big Bill would glower at the offending official and ask coldly: "Would you like to correct your error...
...more extreme than he sounds. His hair is cut for a Jerry Lewis effect, crew-cropped on top, bangs in front. He has a sleepy face, and on the bandstand he keeps his watery-green eyes closed even when listening to Trumpeter Chet Baker, opens them only occasionally to glower at customers who are boorish enough to talk against the music...
This in itself was an improvement over what the non-resident had endured for many years. Until 1951 he was forced to sit back and glower while the rest of the College enjoyed the informal company of faculty members at meals. "Breakfast table education," a vital part of the Harvard scene, was completely lacking so far as the commuter was concerned...
...intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians the way to play Mozart (a way few critics quarrel with...