Word: growlingly
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Winston Churchill's hunched body rose, his heavy gold watch chain shining in Parliament's yellow-glassed sunlight. His hands were in the pockets of his jacket. His great, willful, strangely babylike head surveyed a packed House, and his words began to growl. For two days Winston Churchill had patiently taken a lambasting from his critics, both serious and snide. Now it was his turn. He began it with an invocation to the spirit of Democracy which was destined for history...
...Wendell Willkie. Among those who thought the appointment a bad one was the Herald Tribune. When Bud Kelland, making his first pronouncement as a GOPundit, declared that it was every citizen's bounden duty, even in wartime, "to engage vigorously in politics," the Herald Tribune let out a growl and jumped...
Toward the stroke of twelve, Churchill raised his glass high and steady, spoke clearly in his soft growl, pausing an instant between each phrase...
Somewhat different is the problem of venereal disease. In 1917, Army doctors had to accept men who were infected with syphilis and gonorrhea; today all men inducted are perfectly healthy, yet venereal disease, particularly gonorrhea, is now the Army's most serious medical problem. Many private physicians growl that their former patients-men who went to camp healthy-became infected within six months. At present the Army rate is close to that of the civilian population, as it tends to reflect the civilian rate in each neighborhood. Selective service examination figures vary from Florida (53.5 syphilitics...
...Marines of the Fifth Regiment, roused from their crowded bunks, were piling over the side into pitching beach boats, settling their combat packs, fixing bayonets as they squatted down. An hour after the light had blinked its message, the muted roar of 1,500-horsepower engines overtoned the growl of the waves. The boats were in the surf; men with their rifles held high piled into the water...