Word: growls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grow, industry, grow, grow, growl Harmony and sincerity...
Miss Williams, a short but large woman of great dignity, has the most extraordinary voice of any gospel singer. At one moment, her tone is full and clear; at the next it shifts to a growl, her full vibrato becoming a whisper. The other night she improvised melodic lines within strikingly complex rhythms...
Mikoyan's public grin soon turned into a private growl. Meeting with Japanese Premier Ikeda, he made plain the real reason for his visit: to rail against U.S. military bases in Japan. "Japan is tied to the United States through a security pact that is in fact an aggressive military pact," snarled the salesman, adding that if the Berlin crisis led to war, Japan, because of its U.S. bases, could expect a Russian attack. However, said Mikoyan, "we are making every effort to prevent war." Then he proposed to Ikeda that Russia and Japan sign...
...gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat, and the whine of a power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade, the small talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity of detail in the tent when lightning flashes...
...deflated balloon, and each morning it is pumped back to life again, not with air but electricity. As little Reddy Kilowatt-the power companies' coy public-relations name for juice -swarms all over town, subways scuttle, elevators shoot, lamps light, machines sew, write, add, cool, talk, sing and growl...