Word: snarlingly
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...fear that "Lippy" Durocher had been rendered speechless by love began to haunt deepest Brooklyn. Out in California, 3,000 miles away, the man with the built-in snarl had been turning away reporters' questions with a soft "No comment!" To Mother Brooklyn, that attitude became Durocher like a hole in the head...
...From the snarl they could sort out some obvious facts: the failure of the P.A.C. and big-city machines; labor's refusal to buy the exclusively Democratic brand of politics, the anger of meatless housewives. To some extent, at least, Republicans had been able to make parts of the Democratic line suspect by slapping on the Red label...
...Stephenville, Newfoundland. Flying conditions, however, were excellent. There was a 5,000-foot ceiling and ten-mile visibility. A steady, eight-mile flow of chill air moved across the vast runways. American Overseas Airlines' Berlin-bound DC-4 Eire fled past on its take-off with the blended snarl of its four engines reassuringly shattering the silence. Men on duty in the control tower watched it perfunctorily as it climbed and shrank from sight on its hop to Shannon, Eire...
Last week the Kremlin showed that it has at least brains enough to know which kinds of outside criticism are most damaging, and which are least so. The Stalinists ignore, or pass off with an occasional snarl, the tirades of chronic Russophobes in the U.S. (usually lumped together as "the Hearst-Patterson-McCormick press"), knowing that their hysteria and exaggeration diminish their influence. But since Atkinson's effort was a fair-minded piece for fair-minded readers of an extremely influential paper, the Moscow puppet press exploded...
Only Bette Davis, by sincere overacting, gets this piece going at all; the rest of the cast is about as interesting as wet wash. A limp example: the uncle (Charlie Ruggles) who continually maunders, "Is there anything I can do?" Many cinemaddicts may yearn to snarl, "Yes. go away...