Word: growlingly
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...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...
...chuckle soon turned to a growl. Poujade complained: "Usually reporters are happy to get a 20-minute interview. You've been haunting me night and day, and you're still not satisfied." Before long he was unwilling to talk at all to TIME. When Correspondent De Carvalho protested, a Poujadist cracked: "Maybe you have millions of American readers, but they don't vote in France." Said De Carvalho: "No, but French voters read...
Walt Disney happily has moved in for the weekend at the U.T. The African Lion will growl at Peter and the Wolf and The Emporer Penguine. Fred McMurray thinks he has everyone At Gunpoint, but he won't have you if you enter...