Word: snarl
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...Hollywood's version of Mission to Moscow, the purge trial prosecutor has a black beard, black, beetling eyebrows and a wolfish snarl. When the film got a private screening in the Kremlin in 1943, the real prosecutor at those strange and gloomy assizes, a clean-shaven man with white hair and a pink face, almost collapsed with laughter-laughter directed not only against the movie but against the popular cliche of that day that a Russian Bolshevik was a man with a black beard and a bomb in his hand. If, twelve years later, the popular conception...
...little one!" Willy would cry, as Colette chased her pen through Claudine upon Claudine. If Colette was lazy or restive, Willy locked her in her room. Every page she wrote passed under Willy's practiced editorial eye ("Have I married the last of the lyric poets?" he would snarl, if the prose was sappy). By 1904, Colette was a trained craftsman-and fed up with the life of a tormented hack. At 31, after twelve years of marriage, Colette broke with Willy...
...Excelsior Hotel. There, like swarms of gnats, come the hundreds of little middlemen, promoters, rumor touts and inside-kiters who do the dizzy business of making Italian movies. And in the oleander evenings, while the Roman sky turns blue and gold, the "wasps" (motor scooters) snarl through the Via Veneto, and oldtimers sip their Camparis and indolently speculate on the future...
Frenzy's Snarl. Successive blasts jolted Chestertown for a full 50 minutes; then, for four hours, rockets sporadically whistled skyward and briefly flashed. Some townsfolk had seen a jet plane, or two, or three, flying over seconds before the first detonation. Others watched the grey cloud rise from the plant and thought it looked mushroom-shaped. Mothers gathered their children, put the little ones into baby buggies and trundled them through traffic across the Chester River Bridge. There Chestertown's southbound refugees tangled with rescuers headed north-civil defense disaster units, firemen and police from neighboring towns...
Cupid? Near the end of the morning session, the committee got into a snarl that was to tie it up for the rest of the day. Describing a telephone call he got last Nov. 7 from McCarthy, Stevens said: "Now in that conversation Senator McCarthy said that one of the few things he had trouble with Mr. Cohn about was Dave Schine. He said that 'Roy thinks that Dave ought to be a general and operate from a penthouse on the Waldorf-Astoria' or words to that effect. Senator McCarthy then said that he thought a few weekends...