Word: growl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage and star in its new production of Jacques Offenbach's La Périchole, and Manager Rudolf Bing has rarely had a better idea. Actor Ritchard's singing may only be an educated guess ("My voice has four legitimate notes," he says, "the rest is just growl"), but he makes up for it in agility, style...
Last week the clatter of hammers, the whine of saws, the growl of a tractor shattered the Pole's chill silence. Under the skilled hands of 24 U.S. Navy Seabees, a tiny community of six multihued polar huts was rising from the snow-the home, for many months to come, of 18 American scientists and Navymen...
...flat, trying to keep an eye on a man gone deep, trying to guard against a hooking end and also defend his overloaded zone. (Fifty yards away, guards and tackles are running through a rugged blocking drill. A pair of blockers smash at one defensive lineman. "Growl at 'em," Duffy cries to Sophomore Tackle Fran O'Brien. Fran growls, is hit by surprise from the side. "What happened?" he grunts, peering up at Duffy from under the pile. Duffy roars with delight. "If they pull that on you in a game, Fran, you complain to the referee...
...Sinatra into teaming in a movie for the first time, snagged the services of Grace Kelly for her last screen appearance before embarking for Monaco, paid Cole Porter a reported $250,000 for his first original movie score in eight years, and hired Louis Armstrong to blow and gravel-growl his way through it. The result, unhappily, is strictly plebeian...
...charm on the boards. A boulder of a word, reduced to pebble-size by too much fingering, "charm" comes from the Latin for incantation and implies the use of magic. No one who has seen Fair Lady denies that Rex exerts a sort of magic-who else could growl: "Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?" and make it a moving proposal of marriage-but few can agree on just where it lies...