Word: snarling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied blockade, air attack, further losses on the front must inevitably lower Germany's already reduced industrial production, burden and snarl its already strained transport system. In contrast to industry, Germany's food situation is better than it was last year. The 1943 grain harvest in Europe was good, and the Nazis meant every word of their boast that Germany would eat if all Europe had to starve. The German bread ration was recently increased. Yet the black market continues to flourish. One of Germany's sorest shortages is in housing. Nazi figures admit that...
Boss's Blueprint. By week's end Jimmy Byrnes had determined on a six-point program. Some points were a matter of record, others just a gleam in his shrewd blue eyes. Together, they presaged the most drastic Federal action yet taken to untangle the home-front snarl...
Able to view world problems in terms of thousands of years, the Vatican has an advantage over diplomats enmeshed in appeasement and expediency. Yet the Church has no armed forces to enforce its will. In a Europe converted by Hitler into a snarl of new nationalistic and chauvinistic hatreds, the problems of the Vatican as an international institution are increasingly apparent...
...bottle and sniffed at it absent mindedly. A rude knock on the door shattered his abstraction. He wheeled around to come face-to-face with a brand new cherub of about 17, who set down the bag he was carrying and looked around the room possessively. Vag stifled a snarl. "Are you my roommate?" the Freshman asked, amiably. Vag took the splinter of goal post off the wall, flipped his cigarette into the fireplace and strode out of the room, closing the door behind...
...proprietor of Rick's Cafè Americain (Humphrey Bogart, so tough that at one moment he looks like Buster Keaton playing Paul Gauguin). A strictly cynical neutral, Rick likes to snarl: "I stick my neck out fer nobuddy...