Word: snarl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual, the inmates are restless. They gripe endlessly, snarl out of the sides of their mouths and generally brood up a storm. Finally, the boys in isolation decide to do something about it. They bust out, take over the cell block and hold the guards as hostages. The object of the whole thing is to stall for time so that a few of the riot ringleaders (Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ben Carruthers) can tunnel under the wall and make a break for freedom...
...Snarl and Slowdown. For the year ahead, there is apprehension over the persistent paperwork backlog, which has snarled delivery of securities. Overruling a last-minute plea from the Securities and Exchange Commission to reconsider, the nation's stock exchanges decided to switch from Wednesday closings, in effect since June 12, to shorter hours. Five-day-a-week trading, with closings at 2 p.m. instead of 3:30 in New York, will resume this week. Some brokers share the SEC's fears that the most severe effects of the paperwork jam are yet to be felt. Industry leaders, however...
Announcer: "It is likely, though, that the addition of kissable girls to the campus will change the habitual snarl of the tiger's face...
...confusion of building has become a built-in part of the city's confusion. Everywhere old towers crumble, excavations appear, followed by the quick climb of high steel skeletons. They rise straight from the busy city streets, the clusters of trucks, cement mixers and cranes hopelessly aggravating the snarl of traffic. Amid all this there arise new questions about the price of progress...
...paperwork snarl-by a considerable margin the worst in Wall Street history-began when President Johnson's Viet Nam peace moves sent stocks on a spring spree. Since April 1, Big Board trading has averaged 14 million shares a day, up 40% from the first quarter. The smaller American Exchange has been hit by a 50% increase to 7,500,000 shares a day. In consequence, brokers have been unable to deliver stock certificates to customers within the allotted five business days after they are bought or sold. Compounded by increasing clerical errors, the discrepancies and slippages by last...