Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Army for civilian life. Then he was turned back to his owner. For a while the German shepherd seemed as friendly and tractable as ever. But one day his front-line viciousness flared up again. In his master's backyard in Albany, Calif., Rex suddenly rose with a snarl, leaped a seven-foot fence, set upon 65-year-old Ume Akazi, a woman of Japanese descent. Before his master could pull him off, Rex gashed her knee severely...
...time, Molotov's proposal was widely misinterpreted as sheer rudeness. Even Stettinius and Eden opposed it on the wrong grounds: they simply thought that it would snarl up the whole conference procedure. Not until later did Molotov's opponents realize that in forcing him to back down-as he did-they had won the opening round in a long battle for free discussion...