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Word: snarl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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more likely in Hinckley's mind was a dis sonant snarl of emotions and delusions, which in concert led him to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Drifter Who Stalked Success | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

This talented young writer-director (who won an Emmy with his gritty TV movie The Jericho Mile) has a gift for action and street-snarl dialogue. But he is fatally drawn to making big statements. And repeating them. And acting them out -to make sure his point has penetrated the most thickly armored brain in the house. But all he really has to say is that golden oldie, beloved by people trying to tart up adventure stories: the one about a man having to get down to nothing, to look into the abyss of nonbeing, if he is going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stolen Thoughts | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Citing the traffic jams that snarl the Alewife Brook area during a normal rush hour, Graham said. "Cambridge people are not going to get to Greenfield. They're not even going to get to Route...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Councilors Debate Nuclear 'Threat' | 3/10/1981 | See Source »

JACKSON'S VISION is of decay and chaos. Even when he touches subjects more familiar to him, he bites. "Mad at You" offers not the singsong despair of his hit, "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" but a guttural snarl that he lashes at his lover...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: A Lightweight No More | 12/4/1980 | See Source »

...further obstacle to any prospective hostage deal lay in the snarl of legal complications that would make it impossible for Washington to deliver promptly on three of Khomeini's four conditions. Last Nov. 14, Carter issued an Executive order that froze more than $8 billion in Iranian assets held by U.S. banks. To unfreeze them now, explained the legal counsel for a major New York bank, would be "like putting an omelet back into the egg." Various corporations and individuals have liens against those assets to cover unpaid Iranian debts, and U.S. banks have "offset" a total of about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: The Hostage Drama | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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