Word: growls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHICAGO. "Highball, Gerty, all aboard," comes the word over the cab loudspeaker. Engineer eases the throttle open, and his huge diesel units, totaling more 10,000 h.p., growl into action. They are pulling nine cars, mostly mail loaded in truck trailers carried on 85-ft. flatcars. From the cab track seems too frail and narrow to support 1,500 tons of locomotive and load. After the train leaves the Corwith yards, the speedometer needle creeps up slowly through the flat, industrial along the Des Plaines River. Finally are thundering along at 79 m.p.h., the top speed allowed this train. There...
...honestly predict a victory for Harvard. Granted, we usually do better in Palmer Stadium than we do here, but that's academic. Princeton, of course, is no pussy emotionally. The team's feelings can probably best be summed up by Fabian's immortal words in "Tiger"-"I want to growl Wow!" What more can we say? Princeton...
Slap slap puff puff growl...