Word: growl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progressive Party Ticket. He obtained only 270,000 of the 3,000,000 votes and soon after this defeat was asked by the Department of Justice to register as an agent of a foreign government. Marcantonio defended DuBois and he was finally acquitted, but he wrote, "the growl of a mob, the personal threat of murder ... nothing has cowed me as that day when I took my seat in a Washington courtroom as an indicted criminal." Shortly thereafter his wife died...
...Area of Panmunjom-a site a half-mile in diameter set up by the armistice, and the only place where the two sides formally come together-hostility is barely controlled. Red guards and U.S. military policemen shove and elbow each other for the right of way on sidewalks. Communists growl, "Kae seki [son of a bitch]" as they pass, spit at them or step on their toes. Reacting to such petty provocations, one 6-ft., 200-lb. U.S. Navy yeoman strolled up to a North Korean guardhouse and casually leaned against the door while the angry Communist soldiers inside tried...
...very best, his voice sounds as if it were drifting over the walls of a tuberculosis sanitarium?but that's part of the charm. Sometimes he lapses into a scrawny Presleyan growl, and sometimes his voice simply sinks into silence beneath the pile-driver chords he plays on his guitar. But he has something unique to say, and he says it in songs of his own invention that are the best songs of their style since Woody Guthrie...
Visitors who dropped in at No. 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris in the 1930s occasionally found Gertrude Stein waving a delicate handkerchief at her dog. "Play Hemingway," she would say. "Be fierce." The dog would growl...
After four months of enforced hibernation, the press's surliest bear was back on the growl. From Tucson, where he holed up after Hearst's King Features syndicate fired him last summer for daring to attack the boss (he wrote that William Randolph Hearst Jr. was wanting in "character, ability or loyalty''), onetime Hearst Columnist Westbrook Pegler. 68, let it be known that he had found a new vent for his wrath. Beginning in February, said Pegler, he will write one political column a month for American Opinion-the house organ of the John Birch Society...