Word: growls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the conventions are over, that situation will change rapidly. Millions now growl: "I don't like any of them." By Labor Day, they will have a clear choice between two major-party candidates rather than among the current profusion of possible Presidents. Rockefeller talks of a "clean break, a clean slate and a clean start." Those are words of challenge. But each of the candidates, in his own way, is after the same thing. For the chief challenge to each is not so much to defeat his nearest rival as the task of finding a solution to what ails...
...animal is stitched and stuffed with care. Material for coats is selected to simulate real fur. In sewing on eyes and mouths, skilled workers take pains to ensure that each animal wears a distinctive expression. Some animals are equipped with voice boxes that enable lions to roar, bears to growl and donkeys to bray; many have movable heads and limbs. The continuing purpose is to make them lovable as well as lifelike. "We never model them after the full-grown animal," explains Hans-Otto Steiff, "but always after the young, slightly ungraceful ones...
...gonna growl like a tiger on the prowl...
ERIC IS HERE (MGM). Time was when the Animals had growl and bite, a sound as earthy as the Rolling Stones'. But they have been tamed and harnessed to a carefully arranged orchestra, while Leader Eric Burdon sings a broad spectrum of the blues (In the Night, I Think It's Gonna Rain Today). Eric's voice is good and his sobs most mellifluous, but the total effect is more glossy than real...
They give you about 12 hours of hand-to-hand combat which is a cross between Judo and Karate and boxing and, once again, you growl with each movement. They tell you it's very important that you growl. In the first place, it reduces you to an animal. I mean that's what you feel like, Tarzan the savage beast of the jungle facing unarmed a thousand foes. I don't know how much hand-to-hand combat I learned, but I developed a damn intimidating growl...