Word: snarlingly
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...Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, forecast a future of automated wars "featuring almost instantaneous application of lethal firepower." Much of the air war is now automated and instantaneous. B-52s move in an electronic "bubble" generated by Rivet Ace, a highly classified system designed to snarl the latest model enemy missile radars. Fighters flying as low as 200 feet can be programmed to jerk into a sudden, evasive barrel roll the moment they are picked up by SAM radar. Over enemy infiltration routes, AC-130 Spectre gunships lay down a barrage of fire when the presence...
...With a snarl and a derisive wave of the hand, a member of the starting team of Bok's Indoor Joks thus dismissed the possibility that the Crimson's unbeaten, unchallenged, and generally unnoticed basketball team stood a chance this morning, when it takes on an arrogant Administration quintel at 10 a.m. at the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...mugs, sings lying down, and once, in Buenos Aires, even danced the tango with six Argentine stagehands. All in the cause of easing tensions and clearing the way for creative work. "Beverly, was that an F and G in your part?" Conductor Aldo Ceccato once asked during a snarl-up in a recording session. "It could have been a K and L, the way I sang it," she replied...
...Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen was free to strike last week as Government-imposed restraints expired. Though a strike that would snarl the nation's rail system is possible, the indications are that the signalmen will await the outcome of contract talks involving the larger shopcraft unions before pressing their demands. They want at least a 54% increase in their $3.78 an hour wage over three years...
...surge of trading has roused fears that Wall Street may again be heading into a repetition of the paperwork snarl that overwhelmed brokers from 1967 to 1969. Chairman Donald T. Regan of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith last week urged that brokerage houses be prohibited through quotas from accepting more trades than they can process without delay. Recognizing the danger signs, the New York Stock Exchange last week ordered one medium-sized firm to limit the volume of its business...