Word: snarl
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...that Dole wasn't on board with the Contract with America, we could have packed our bags and gone home. Their work together in Congress has given Dole the opportunity to reverse some of the past animosity between them. He's done it well." Well enough for Gingrich to snarl, "Come on, that was 11 years ago," when asked about his having labeled Dole the "tax collector for the welfare state...
Later, she wielded a guitar she said was out of tune. Smith's voice, however, was in fine form. It became a ratty snarl when she sang "Dylan's Dog," but in other tunes such as "About a Boy," a song off her upcoming album, she had all the resonance of a harmonica. Her voice rose octaves and at points even seemed to purr...
...into a plea as strong but uninsistent as a prayer. There may be something cosmopolitan about the blues on From the Cradle, but that quality doesn't come from spurious sophistication. It originates, rather, from some wider experience of the world and a consequent deeper sadness. It does not snarl. It whispers, the sound of a hard traveler halfway along a dark road...
...President to remind himself, and his domestic and international audiences, that there are important areas such as Eastern Europe where no crises threaten, and others such as economic performance where the nation is doing very well. If only it weren't for Haiti. And North Korea. And the congressional snarl over health care...
...furloughed for the prolonged pre-transplant regimen, afterward he would return to prison. Would he be furloughed promptly again if a heart became available unexpectedly, as donor hearts are wont to do? The Bureau of Prisons says he would be. Murphy has his doubts. Doctors see a logistical snarl that could hopelessly compromise the success of the transplant. The authorities shrug. "The Bureau of Prisons doesn't have a hang-up," explains Robert McFadden, executive assistant to the warden at Rochester. "When we're presented with the information we request, we can go forward...