Word: gruffness
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...increasingly harassed airport manager (Lloyd Bridges) reverts to bad habits as the pressure increases ("I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue"). There is also, naturally, a senior pilot (Robert Stack) who is expected to talk the plane in. He is supposed to be lovably gruff, but is, in fact, just plain meanspirited. Veteran Actors Bridges, Graves and Stack are all wonderfully alive to the opportunity to send up roles they have had to play straight for most of their careers-good sports, all of them...
DIED. Paul Hall, 65, gruff labor leader who helped build the Seafarers International Union, then became its president in 1957; of cancer; in New York City...
...long column of refugees is being herded along a dusty, withered road. Gruff, snarling guards, with uniforms emblazoned by hammers and sickles, eye us suspiciously. Behind me are the smoldering ruins of New York City, now in grubby Soviet hands...
Coll's message is an old one, yet his style is quite refreshing. He combines a gruff manner, creative obscenities, and a J.F.K. idealism to entertain and inspire his volunteers. He feels this type of leadership is lacking in today's government or university administrations...
...Yeah?" says a gruff voice...