Word: growls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...twice a year take their toll of undergraduate nerves and patience by often creating as much tension as the blue books they distribute. Since they apparently operate under the theory that students will cheat if they can, some proctors prowl around the examination room like watchdogs, emitting an occasional growl and contributing to an already unpleasant atmosphere...
Into the arena strode John Foster Dulles. More than 200 reporters, waiting in the State Department auditorium, were the lions-at least they were ready to growl. Dulles eyed them with a slight smile. "I have a brief statement to make," he began, "about a matter which I judge to be of current interest." He noted that an article in LIFE, which had said that the U.S. policy of strength had deterred the Communists from full-scale war in Korea, Indo-China and the FormosL Strait "has attracted much comment." He then read a statement...
...banking. In auditing Defense Department expenses, for example, he learned that a few expensive, unnecessary items had to stay in the budget because they affected the home folks of Congressmen or Senators with critical votes to cast on the whole budget. He had to learn to jump at a growl from the members of the House Appropriations Committee. Only last week, while his head was swimming with the billions of the new budget, old John Taber, ranking Republican on the committee, confronted him with a packet of individually wrapped cotter pins and washers and demanded an explanation for such flagrant...