Word: snarlingly
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...blood was up. The little man shouted Spanish curses that would have debased a Hemingway hero. Then he shot his car into reverse. The girl saw what was coming, jumped from her car and stood on the curb. "Policia! Policia! Socorro! Socorro!" (Police! Help!), she screamed. With a vengeful snarl, the Buick butted into the Oldsmobile's rear, slammed the back seat into the front" and shattered all the windows...
...nation-by-nation dickerings which will characterize the first conference stage. The British had a point, because several delegations were giving a beautiful imitation of Alphonse & Gaston-holding out their own bids & asks until they saw the other fellow's schedules. But, most awkwardly, the opening snarl reminded everybody of the ubiquitous bilateralism that Geneva was supposed to suppress-in favor of freer multilateral trade in a world atmosphere of multilateral confidence...
...trial again by the re-established Italian Republic. He took the stand in Rome's Court of Assizes, looking as jaundiced as the walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound had distorted his mouth. For the first time after two decades of rumor, Dumini told a graphic story of the famous killing...
...would be far better (and cheaper) to get electricity direct. How? Piles give their energy in a snarl of assorted forms: zig-zagging neutrons, high-speed beta particles, heat, light, gamma rays. Confined within the pile's thick shield, they all simmer down to heat, the most "degraded" form of energy. It takes the costly boiler-turbine-generator combination to "elevate" the heat into usable electricity...
...Frachon played cat-&-mouse. France twitched and jumped with "token" strikes, ranging from the theater ushers, who would not take patrons to their seats, to the Paris police, who struck for four hours.* At the same time the subway workers struck. A stockbroker, Louis Molinier, watched the resulting traffic snarl in the Place de la Concorde. He pulled his coat collar up against the wind, shivered, and said: "It gives you the impression that a thousand men with rifles could take over the whole city...