Word: snarlingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already gone home. It was necessary to ask the other house's permission for adjournment, but it was traditional for permission to be given. But last week, by a vote of 58 to 25, the Senate sulkily ordered the House to stick around and help clear up the snarl of bills still wedged tight in conference committee. Then, Senators began arguing among themselves about responsibility for their own delays...
From conditions that gave the word "sweat shop" to the language, it has won the most complete welfare program in the U.S. From a snarl of crafts and nationalities, from a rank & file in which women (considered unreliable by organized labor) outnumber men three to one, it has built one of the nation's strongest industrial unions. From chaotic conditions, where there was a strike with every season, it has brought order. It has had no major strike in 15 years...
Dreadful Joy. It has hordes of critics, and they damn it like Victorian belles stabbing a masher with hatpins. Intellectuals, Easterners and British writers, many of whom have lived happily in its sunshine for decades, snarl at its lack of culture, its brashness, its frenzied architecture. Aldous Huxley called it the "city of Dreadful Joy [where] conversation is unknown." H. L. Mencken handed down a one-word verdict: "Moronia...
...Book-Register-yearbook snarl came no closer to solution last night after a four-hour conference between the major participants in the case...
Already through the scores of refugee camps dotting Bavaria's country there drifts a bitter wind of social hatred and malice. Families herded into camps snarl with venom against the cozy villages near by. "If only the Russians would come for a few weeks," said one old refugee from East Prussia. "It would warm my heart to see the Bavarians thrown out of their homes...