Word: growls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that the reason for TIME'S liveliness can be found in the masthead, which lists dozens of female researchers whose "pulse-quickening" presence "peps up TIME'S denizens." TIME'S masthead also fascinated Playwright William Saroyan, who had a character...
...Gushy. Both Osgood and Frank agreed that Communist China's aggressive big mouth may be a result of its fear of American power-sheer "bluster and growl" to ward off a powerful competitor. Frank even suggested therapy. "In approaching a deeply suspicious person," he cautioned, "it does not pay to be too friendly. Since he is convinced that you mean him no good, he is prone to misinterpret an overly friendly manner as an effort to put something over on him. So a firm, reserved, but not unfriendly manner makes more headway than effusiveness." In many ways, Frank...
When the blinking had risen to a fever pitch, about 20 Weld students poured out of the dorm making animal noises. Windows went up all over the Yard and the Weld call was answered for a short time by a general growl...
They were talking about Cheetah, Manhattan's newest and noisiest fun house, which roared into life last week with the growl and din of a gigantic concrete mixer. It had a familiar look, a return to the big, brash scene of the 1930s marathon dance halls, and on opening night some 2,000 invited guests pushed through the door of the Broadway and 53rd Street site known to their parents as the Riviera Terrace and, before that, the Arcadia Ballroom...
...preparation for his other work. Somehow, he knew from the time he finished them that they were no more than closet drama. "I enjoy so much writing my plays," he wrote to Critic Edward Garnett. "They come so quick and exciting from the pen-that you mustn't growl at me if you think them a waste of time...