Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These things the stolid, seawise commander of the Allied fleets in the Indies weighed at his headquarters in Java. When events go badly for Vice Admiral Helfrich, he does not rant or snarl or gloom. He goes grim. This week he was very grim...
...press release claimed that figures, not yet divulged in open court, would show that on May 10, 1940 France had only seventeen 90-mm. anti-aircraft guns, that there were boots for only 3,000,000 French poilus, when 4,500.000 pairs were needed. This was recrimination with a snarl. It was no news to stricken France. Over their rationed wine the oldsters nodded their heads at an editorial in Le Temps...
...Canada needed most last week was Ernest Lapointe. For two decades Ernest Lapointe had manipulated the strings that pull the geographical subdivisions, the racial and religious antagonisms of Canada into one nation. Last week the issue of conscription for overseas service threatened to snarl the strings as badly as it did in World War I. But the great manipulator's fingers were limp...
...partitioning of his new province on the Adriatic Sea, Hitler must consider as many as six claims. Even before the war had officially ended, the Axis jackals had begun to snarl over the latest spoils...
According to New York Times Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger, German bombing did just what it was intended to do: snarl communications and service. Wrote Sulzberger, after a spectacular three-day flight from Belgrade to Greece, of the scene after the first raids on Skoplje...