Word: snarlingly
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...they received new encouragement to use the American classics as a foundation as they moved onto orginal work. While Richards honed his barebones, metallic mixture of rock and R & B. Jagger discovered that the old stories about screwing and getting screwed over could be retold--with more of a snarl, if that seemed right, or even a touch of parody, to show that the whole business didn't mean much to the Stones in the first place...
...emotion-heavy words that are easiest to spot are epithets and endearments: blockhead, scumbum, heel, sweetheart, darling, great human being and the like. All such terms are so full of prejudice and sentiment that S.I. Hayakawa, a semanticist before he became California's U.S. Senator, calls them "snarl-words and purr-words...
...recoiled at some of Nixon's crudities. I resented being constantly manipulated. Yet I was deeply grateful for the opportunity he had given me to serve my country. Where outsiders saw a snarl, I saw the fear of rejection. What often appeared as deviousness was a means to preserve his options in the face of inner doubt about his own judgment. Few men so needed to be loved and were so shy about the grammar of love. Complexity was his defense, a sense of inadequacy his secret shame, until they became second nature and produced what he feared most...
...estimated $12 billion in gold and bank deposits that was frozen by the U.S. Government in 1979, Poland has relatively little to offset its huge debt. Any effort to attach its ships or jetliners that happen to be in the West would create a nightmarish financial and legal snarl that would take years to untangle...
Houston's helter-skelter development has a troublesome side. Traffic is becoming a round-the-clock snarl, and 1,000 more cars and trucks drive onto the city's potholed roads every week. Houston has badly mismanaged its water supply. Flooding is routine. Parts of the city, built over increasingly depleted underground water, have sunk as much as a foot since 1973. Concedes James Ketelsen, chairman of Houston-based Tenneco Corp.: "Houston lacks the forward planning and leadership to keep up with services. It's obvious the city hasn't kept pace with growth." The city...