Word: growl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...honor guard ranked the South Lawn, green with spring's first surge. Battle streamers from Lexington to Viet Nam snapped on their staffs in the chill flurries. Trumpets soared and the mellow growl of trombones echoed down the Mall: God Save the Queen. It was a moment of dignity, in a nation that craves...
...voice is not there. Bacall--she of the throaty growl to die for--has only an average singing voice and performs many of her songs in a Rex Harrison-like half song, half speech. Ditto her co-star Harry Guardino, who is best known for helping Clint Eastwood rearrange faces in Dirty Harry and The Enforcer. Because this is basically a two-character show--and because this duo can't dance very well either--the musical end of Woman sinks like a cast iron...
HELP FIGHT CRIME: BUY GUNS, urge bumper stickers on cars along Miami's Flagler Street. To attract new depositors, the city's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association offers not toasters or blenders, but pocket cans of spray repellent. Newly acquired Doberman guard dogs growl inside increasing numbers of Bade County homes; sales of sophisticated burglar alarm systems and rudimentary iron bars for doors are booming. Says a Miami policeman: "Sometimes I think I'm in Dodge City...
Early one morning in March 1978, residents of Saigon were jolted awake by something eerily reminiscent of the city's "liberation" three years before: the growl of tanks on the broad boulevards. This time, the goal of Hanoi's forces was to stamp out capitalist trade in the Cholon business district. Squads of Communist Youth League zealots searched every shop and warehouse. Merchandise was seized; stores were padlocked. Employers of more than five people were denounced as exploiters of the working class. Family-run produce markets were allowed to stay in business-but only if they held their...
Treves, a dedicated surgeon, has sought out John Merrick to study his deformities and to present him to a conference of physicians as "the most perverted and degraded form of a human being" he has ever seen. Because Merrick will only grunt and growl, Treves takes him for an imbecile: "For his own sake, I pray to God he's an idiot." But the doctor soon discovers that his specimen is not only intelligent, but well-read and inquisitive, a sensitive young man painfully aware of his condition. Refusing to return him to his sideshow master, Treves sets...