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Word: growls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold sleeps in the Common. He awakes each morning to the sun, a stomach growl, and the stolid stone gaze of Lincoln watching Garden Street--at about seven-thirty. He usually steals a newspaper on the way to the Square (Dick Tracy fascinates him), and eats breakfast at the Bick...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: DOWN and OUT in Cambridge | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

After almost a month of excited baying, the dogs of war subsided into a growl -still ominous but less noisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: The Turn of the Screw | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...loan, and 2) insisted that Moscow call off the projected visit to Finland of Old Bolshevik Otto Kuusinen, Helsinki-born member of the Russian Party Presidium and father of Finnish Communist Party Leader Hertta Kuusinen. From across the Russian border that runs just 40 miles from Helsinki came a growl of disappointment. "Reactionary . . ." snapped Moscow's Izvestia. "The most right-wing of all Finnish governments since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Swing to the Right | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Harold sleeps in the Common. He awakes each morning to the sun, a stomach growl, and the stolid stone gaze of Lincoln watching Garden Street--at about seven-thirty. He usually steals a newspaper on the way to the Square (Bernard Goldfine fascinates him), and eats breakfast at the Bick...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Down 'n' Out in Cambridge: The Soybean Cult | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

...parkas, salmon fishing and Gold Rush prostitutes. She also makes an emotional and just plea for Alaskan statehood. But decades of panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy is a tycoon, but she prefers Grandpa Thor Storm. The name should prepare readers for the fact that he has noble Norwegian blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Igloo Reading | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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