Word: grunting
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...Samson's, their hair is uncut. Their early training consists mostly of walking around looking for a movable mass of stone or wood; when such a mass is sighted the would-be wrestler gathers himself together, gets a running start, and hurls himself at it with a mighty grunt. After several years of displacing boulders the candidate is considered tough enough to begin learning the 48 tricks & dodges of Japanese wrestling, or Sumo.* In a 12-ft. ring a Japanese wrestler grunts through a brief career of trying to squash his opponent into submission. If he becomes a yokozuna...
...occurs just when things are looking brightest for Mammy's big family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
...which would never have fooled a clever or a more experienced fighter. He hit Carnera twice in the middle. When Carnera dropped his hands to protect his body, Sharkey led for Carnera's jaw, reached it with a right hand punch that caused Monster Carnera to give an astonished grunt and collapse...
That in itself means nothing. Small brains do not mean low intelligence. Intelligence shows up in folds, creases and wrinkles of the fore brain. The more complex the convolutions, the more intelligent the creature. The Jervois lady had a simple mind. She could grunt, squeal, gabble but probably could not talk...
...experiences of many a small boy (like himself) whose weekly chore before the electric-blower era was to sweat and grunt over the pumphandle in the organ loft. Theirs was the duty, indispensable to organist and choir, of keeping a crude pressure-gauge above the danger mark. On rare occasions, dreadfully unforgettable, the pumper might lag from exhaustion "and wreck a full throated anthem or a shrill soprano solo in the agonized screeches of the high pipes and the guttural grunts of the low ones as the wind suddenly expired." Least penalty for such dereliction: dismissal in disgrace. Reward...