Word: grunt
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...seem more like spitballs. Occasionally, to show he knows his way around a dictionary (or beyond it), he tosses in a word like "propliopithecustian." But most of the time he sticks to the literary method which assumes that the height of human expression can be reached in a monosyllabic grunt...
That advising does not correspond to this rosy design is woefully apparent to the student who has received little more than a grunt and a signature from his academic guardian. But even more apparent is the fact that advising cannot be abandoned. The majority of undergraduates needs the stimulation and guidance which good advisors can, and in a few cases do, give. Granting the difficulty various departments face in finding men capable enough to carry out an ideal program, insufficient attention has been given to the appointment and reappointment of advisors. The departments are obligated to their students...
...stocky little pianist padded straight to the concert grand in the center of the stage. He sat down, arranged his tails, struck a softly impatient chord. When the chatter and applause diminished to a cathedral quiet, he began to play. People in the front rows heard him snort and grunt over sforzandos, in rollicking passages saw his blue eyes twinkle like Santa Claus's. When his program was over, he nodded his big, square head appreciatively, and trundled off stage...
...Grunt for the Boss. Like most Presidents, F.D.R. thought he was being overguarded (70 men on the regular White House Detail, hundreds when he went on speaking tours). The one & only serious attempt at assassination, despite some 5,000 threatening letters a month, was the Miami shooting in 1933 which resulted in the death of Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak...
...arena of an Osaka theater, two muddy Japanese girls lifted and tugged at each other (see cut). Their holds were amateurish. Their disparate weights (240 and 120 pounds respectively) would have made the most jaded U.S. groan-&-grunt promoter blush. But the panting young women were symbols of a national effort. With free elections, polite policemen and Coca-Cola machines, Japanese had sought to ape U.S. ways. Now the ultimate imitation had been achieved-female wrestling on a mat of liquid...