Word: rasp
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...Streets that follow like a tedious argument and 'Watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirtsleeves, leaning out of windows,' he never stirs his sympathetic, supercilious mouth to call out even once, 'What cheer, me buddies . . .' Eliot seems to rasp at life itself, looking at men as living only in so far as they have not yet been buried. Yet with all his well-fifed madrigals of death and desolation, Eliot longs after life...
...famous Bronx cheer for Manhattan, Nothing Sacred (1937) Jerry Lewis now plays Carole Lombard's movie part. Alas, Carole was prettier. She was also funnier. And Janet Leigh, playing the old Fredric March part, adds body to the fun but no flavor. Somewhere along the production line the rasp has been strained out of the raspberry, but what's left is still the pleasantest session with Jerry Lewis and Partner Dean Martin in more than several...
...matter on the level of personalities, but he did have a withering phrase for any officer or civilian who would give away classified information: reprehensible insubordination. To a military man like Ike, it was the unpardonable sin. The soul of an Army, he said, emphasizing "soul" in an irritated rasp, is the certainty that everyone responds to the laws of the land and to the orders of superiors, all the way up to the Commander in Chief. As any military man should know, the Army has its own recourse for soldiers who feel their superiors are derelict of duty...
...Racketeer Frank Costello, 63, got the bill. Federal Judge John F.X. McGohey sentenced him to five years, $30,000 in fines. Costello, his eyes red from weeping, had already indicated that he had learned his lesson-or, at least, one lesson. "Remember this," he told reporters in his familiar rasp. "When you spend money, spend cash and don't spend checks...
...rasp slipped into Georges Bidault's calm voice. "Indo-China is not one of the preconditions [to EDC approval]. If you want to construe it to be one, then you must replace me as a Foreign Minister...