Word: growls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian athletes competed in the winter Olympic games, but Russian "observers" were all over the place. At first they were content to pop off about the superiority of their home-grown athletes. Toward the end of the games, perhaps warming up for the summer Olympics, they began to growl about a "behind-the-scenes deal, so evident that even the bourgeois Norwegian press was forced openly to take notice...
...himself, but his marginal scrawls often ran almost as long as the article. Another prejudice-against the traditional two-line* "he & she" cartoon-led to the one-line caption, sharpened by a dozen rewrites. Ross was as captious about cartoons as about stories. Looking at a cartoon, he would growl: "Who's talking?" A character had to have his mouth wide open so the reader would know instantly who was talking. Though his profanity was as natural and unconscious as his breathing, he was puritanical about the printed word. He even barred such words as "armpit" and "pratfall...
...prevailing tone of voice here today is something between a whine and a growl. What sometimes muffles this unpleasant sound is the sweetly reasonable voice of Adenauer himself . . . He is for the Schuman (coal and steel) Plan and the Pleven (European army) Plan. He is against both neo-Nazis and Communists. He manages to be on the side of the angels, the Anglo-Saxons and even the French . . . But the voice of Adenauer is a voice that finds little echo in the German nation. He has great qualities, but not the capacity to evoke affection for himself or real enthusiasm...
Last week Tonkin's uneasy quiet was broken by the urgent growl of American bulldozers and cement-mixers. De Lattre, in furious haste, was replacing the Beau Geste forts on his northern front with modern concrete bunkers. His main concern: protection of the vital 60-mile road and rail link between Hanoi and the supply port of Haiphong...
...week that President Truman announced his program for mobilizing the U.S. economy, the Senate's new watchdog committee on U.S. preparedness uttered its first warning growl. After just a month's sniffing through the U.S. mobilization effort, Texas' sharp-nosed Chairman Lyndon Johnson had caught the strong scent of "business as usual" in some corners of the Defense Department's planning...