Word: snarlingly
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...software snarl caught computer manufacturers underprepared, partly because the uses of computers proliferated beyond expectations and partly because the third-generation machines required wholly new and vastly more complicated programs than earlier models. "Sometimes," says Executive Vice President Paul Rice of Chicago's Daniel D. Howard Associates, "people who rushed to get a computer have spent three desperate years trying to utilize...
...scores of fires, broke traffic lights and tossed bottles of acid at the hard-pressed police. But the defiant busmen got the worst treatment: the mobs attacked drivers and passengers, burned ten buses in a single day and reduced the island's transportation system to one gigantic traffic snarl...
...snarl of an engine splits the stillness. Out of the half-light, the projected silhouette of a Piper Cub glides ghostlike across a side wall. Suddenly, sound track and silhouette become a screaming, whooshing jet that dives at the stage and disintegrates with a shattering roar in the midst of six musicians. The drummer roars back with a thumping beat. The guitarists twang away lustily. And, momentum building, voices wailing and all systems gogo, the Jefferson Airplane blasts...
With Wally and Tom in one car and the inspectors following, the trail led through Manhattan's afternoon rush-hour snarl, through the Lincoln Tunnel (no radio reception there), down the New Jersey Turnpike to Newark Airport. All evening and most of the night, the tailing went on, from scruffy diners to B-girl bars, across Hackensack Meadows on Fish House Road, around rail-truck terminals. In the long hide-and-seek, the cars got separated, and the chief feared for Wally's life. But Wally played his part well. He later emerged with a carton of counterfeit...
...Friendship. Even more frustrating is the common presidential illusion that a hand-picked appointee will vote the "right" way when he reaches the court. In 1902, the brand-new Justice Holmes crossed Teddy Roosevelt by voting against the Government in a trustbusting suit, prompting T. R. to snarl helplessly that Holmes had no more backbone than a banana. After Wilson appointed what he thought was the "liberal" James C. McReynolds in 1914, his protege became one of the court's alltime archconservatives. Does every man change when he dons those robes? "If he is any good, he does," said...