Word: growls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bayonet practice, you have to growl with each movement. This is to intimidate the enemy. Every five minutes or so the instructor will shout "What's the spirit of the bayonet?" and everyone shouts "To kill! To kill...
...bayonet with the six inch steel head. In front of you on this platform is one of the drill instructors and he's got a megaphone and he shouts you through the various moves. You know like "On guard, ahh" and all this kind of stuff. You have to growl with each movement you make. This is to intimidate the enemy and every five minutes or so he'll say, "What's the spirit of the bayonet?" and everyone shouts, "To kill, to kill." And they're serious...
Whether the characterizations in this little fable were correct or not is debatable. But the idea of portraying Loeb people as animals was unquestionably a stroke of genius. Like animals, they (a) growl, (b) bite, and (c) growl and bite each other more than the common enemy. Maybe this is characteristic of theatre people everywhere, but it was certainly true of the Loeb community in the Spring...
Died. George Magerkurth, 77, National League umpire from 1929 to 1947, a 6-ft.-4-in. ex-heavyweight boxer with a bulldog face and a growl to match, who set the tone of his career by bouncing John J. McGraw in the first game he worked, became the terror of such bench jockeys as Leo Durocher, Frankie Frisch, Mel Ott, and anyone else with the temerity to question his calls, at one time or another heaving pop bottles back at the stands, breaking the jaw of a catcher who attacked him, and thrashing a fan who did likewise; of pneumonia...
...nation's giant banking, commercial and industrial corporations. In its expensive northern suburbs, artistically wrought steel burglar bars cover the windows of elegant homes, where watchdogs growl on the door mats and swimming pools sparkle on the spacious grounds. Surrounding the city, but separated from it by a green band of no man's land, are African townships where hundreds of thousands of blacks live in government-built mass housing units...