Word: growls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were "solidly based" and proceeding "step by step." In 1957 the Eisenhower Administration was embarrassed by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams' scoff that Sputnik I was little more than a shot in a game of "outer space basketball." Last week the Kennedy Administration was monumentally embarrassed by an unwitting growl from Air Force Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, information officer for the U.S.'s astronautical Project Mercury. Awakened for a 3 a.m. comment on Gaga's flight, Powers snapped to a newsman: "If you want anything from us, you jerk, the answer is that we are all asleep...
Leaning heavily on a silver-knobbed walking stick, Sir Winston Churchill, 86, clumped slowly into the House of Commons for the first time since he broke a bone in his back last November. Churchill's entrance was met with Commons' warmest welcoming growl of "Hear-hear-hear-hear," enthusiastically led by the member whose speech he had interrupted, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Beaming, Sir Winston plumped himself down on the government front bench for half an hour, but in keeping with the self-imposed silence he has maintained in Parliament since his resignation as Prime Minister...
...Whizzer") White (Law '46). Yale has already lost three faculty men to Kennedy, expects to lose two more, including Dean of the Law School Eugene V. Rostow. The next four years seem certain to produce countless occasions when Yaleman will meet Yaleman in a Washington corridor and growl: "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much...
...Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand and his left hand flashing an outsized diamond as he carves out the rhythms, McCoy demonstrates that he can still make a trumpet caterwaul, growl, wail, or punch out notes of brassy clarity...
...Pella, in fashionable Italian style, arrived 15 minutes late for a business session with Khrushchev and Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, found the Russians scowling heavily at their watches. When Gronchi suggested that the summit meeting should take up reunification of Germany through free elections, Khrushchev broke in to growl that his utmost concession on Germany would be to guarantee Berlin as a "free city" once the West withdrew its troops. Things were not helped even when Gronchi presented Khrushchev with a 16th century bust of Marcus Aurelius...