Word: growls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, city officials and even some stockbrokers took all this as mere ritual growl. Twice before, the exchange had headed off similar tax increases by vowing to move away. Last week the exchange turned from threats to action. Its board of governors canceled plans to build a $50 million headquarters in Battery Park, ordered architectural work halted, voted to let an option on the site lapse and decided to step up a search for a new home elsewhere...
...came when the Master of the House invited himself up to Tea one afternoon. Unfortunately, George did not remain quiet, and soon after the Master arrived she began to whine and growl in a most piteous way and to knock on the door to the living room behind which she was incarcertated. The Master, remarking on the peculiarity of the noises issuing from behind the door, opened...
...goes from side-of-da-mouth to elegant eighteenth century English, from bubble-gum popping to a low purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara $30,000 to stay available for the 31 years (and two collaborators) it took him to write Clear Day. With the box office now running at $88,000 a week...
When starting pitchers insisted "I'm not tired," Casey would growl, "I'm not tired either, so I'm gonna bring in a new man before I get tired watchin'." Batters resented being replaced by pinch hitters-sometimes before their first turn at bat. Whenever a Yankee player made a mistake, Stengel would discuss it for hours with New York sportswriters-"my writers"-in that incredible prose known as "Stengelese." "You open a paper in the morning," Third Baseman Clete Boyer once complained, "and you read how lousy...
...pure "brown sound" today, the most successful are the Righteous Brothers and the Rolling Stones. The Righteous Brothers, a Mutt-and-Jeff pair of 24-year-old Californians, are referred to by Negro disk jockeys as "our blue-eyed soul brothers" for the spiraling gospel wail and hoarse growl they inject into songs like their bestselling Just Once in My Life. Their name, in fact, is derived from the Sunday-go-to-meetin' phrase: "Man, that was really righteous, brothers...