Word: snarl
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...classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that the reason for TIME'S liveliness can be found in the masthead, which lists dozens of female researchers whose "pulse-quickening" presence "peps up TIME'S denizens." TIME'S masthead also fascinated Playwright William Saroyan...
...Wait a minute, now wait a minute," he will snarl after almost every statement. Then he bores in, sometimes filibustering to extended lack of effect, but sometimes digging out news that the briefing officer meant to pass over...
...senior waxed eloquent on the possibilities of greater equality: "It'll be okay, but none of this 'ladies first' crap. In other lines, the guys-in-charge snarl at us and smile at them. But now Cliffies will get the same lousy section men we do, and the myth of the brain gap will disappear...
...Minister and longtime family friend, Vengalil Krishna Menon. In fact, Indira had al ready quietly disowned him. Last week, in the first political attack mounted against Mrs. Gandhi personally, Menon betrayed his anger in a scathing 25-minute parliamentary harangue that showed off all his celebrated talents for sarcasm, snarl and serpentine innuendo...
...last-minute snarl-up almost kept the winks grounded. The Cornell team had agreed to bring two three-by-six playing mats to the match. But according to Gottesman, "there was a misunderstanding," and the $5 mats, which can be purchased only from Marchant Games Ltd., Loughton, England, didn't arrive in time. The quick-thinking Crimson squad worked out a rotation schedule that allowed the teams to get by using only Harvard's mats...