Word: growls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frantically, the Senate's parliamentarian whispered to the glowering Vice President, "Stay out of it-stay out of it!" Rockefeller replied with a growl: "I'm not going to take this from any body. I'm going to explain my position." He did, but that only made matters worse. No Senator could remember a presiding officer who had ever intruded into a Senate debate...
...fuss. In a reclusive mood, Katharine Hepburn, 65, hid her face from autograph seekers at intermission. When an amateur photographer tried to snap her, she shooed him away so fiercely that he fell. "I really thought she was going to belt him," said one impressed observer, who earned a growl from Kate: "Beat it, buster...
What makes the Buckley amendment yet more offensive is its wording. Any Harvard official who has read the bill will growl that it is "poorly-drafted." This is not only the administration line on the amendment, but it is a legitimate academic response: the manner in which the bill cavalierly avoids specifying such crucial matters as, say, the fate of statements made with the presumption of confidentiality is a real affront to academics who are accustomed to dealing with scholarly writings...
What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...
...Palais des Congrés to see the visiting Russian folk ballet Berkiozka and during the intermission went backstage to meet the cast. Jackie was so taken by the great big bear who is a traditional member of the troupe that she asked him to dance. So, with a growl, the bear obliged, sweeping a beaming Mrs. Onassis into his furry arms for a suspiciously professional waltz...