Word: snarl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the witnesses at last week's Senate Commerce Committee hearing cited the wastefulness and expense of the U.S. time snarl. Chief pressure group for reform is the year-old Committee for Time Uniformity, whose chairman, Robert Ramspeck, disclaimed efforts to force Daylight Saving Time on everybody (as in World Wars I and II). "What we do urge, however, is that such jurisdictions as do observe D.S.T. should, in the interest of uniformity, begin and end D.S.T. on the fourth Sundays of April and October of each year...
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night poses so painful a threat to the U.S. postman as the common dog. Last year 7,372 mail carriers were bitten by Fido; many more were stayed by a snarl from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. But the postman is about to snap back...
There are times, though, when Chamberlain wishes he were a little less successful-and a lot less tall. A 7-ft. man walking down the street is the kind of oddity that children point at and drunks snarl at; he has been asked "How's the weather up there?" in a dozen languages, and people have been calling him "freak" to his face all his life. He even sticks out, drawing all eyes, on a court full of huge men. Says his friend Bill Russell: "Wilt is not only very famous; he's very obvious...
...repulsive as a young man in a hurry. In the scenes at the stock exchange, Antonioni finds his brokers, as Auden found them, "roaring like beasts on the floor of the Bourse," and he simply throws his camera to the wolves. In one scene they yap and snap and snarl and slaver into the spectator's face for five, ten, fifteen minutes of financial frenzy...
...Democratic Senator William Proxmire put it better. Said he bitterly: "It certainly is not a Kennedy bill. No one could call it a Dillon bill. This is the bill of the distinguished Senator from Oklahoma, the very able uncrowned King of the Senate, Rob ert S. Kerr." Snarled Lines. Bob Kerr, second-ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, took over the floor management of the bill after Chairman Harry Byrd. patriarch of Democratic conservatism, objected to the revenue loss involved in its 7% in come tax credit for industries that invest in new machinery. In eight days of slashing, sarcastic...