Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With earnings dropping sharply from wartime peaks, New York's taxi owners resolved to ask their irascible drivers to shave more often, dress better, and substitute a smile for the wartime snarl...
Lassie takes about 15 whining and barking cues a week. He also pants with exquisite nuance (and with considerable editing by the sound panel), but cannot be depended on to growl or snarl...
...appropriation bill had reached the President's desk. Three other appropriation bills were ready for Senate-House conferees, eight were waiting House or Senate* action. To provide pay for federal employees in fiscal 1948, Congress would have to authorize continued spending at the present rate until the legislative snarl could be untangled...
...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...