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Word: snarls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry, already troubled by a strike of 20,000 dockers. Coal piled up at the pitheads, steel mills closed, trawlers were laid up for lack of fuel. Commuters, who took to buses, cars and bicycles by the thousands to get to their offices, involved London in a huge traffic snarl. With the nation's vital export trade and its own prestige at stake, Sir Anthony Eden's new Tory government stepped in vigorously. In the Queen's name, Eden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: State of Emergency | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

When World War II broke out, the colonel, then 67, was called back to help harden marines. "Come on, now, kill me," he would snarl unarmed, as they brandished their bayonets. "Why," said one recruit flattened by the colonel's jujitsu, "that old geezer knows more ways to kill you with his bare hands than any man alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hard Scrapple | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...such dishes as stuffed cabbage, and sometimes at formal receptions he handles his chopsticks like a coolie, shoving bowl to mouth and shoveling. He likes to hunt (duck and tiger). He may erupt into sudden violence. Considering someone he dislikes, he will sometimes spit across the room and snarl, "dirty type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Beleaguered Man | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

Thus, getting the green light from a President who sometimes distresses them by recommending gentle treatment of Democrats, Capitol Hill Republicans happily turned on Paul Butler with a collective snarl. Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater rose on the Senate floor to call Butler's statement "another sample of person-smear tactics which have now become typical of Butler's idea of political warfare . . . Our distinguished President and his wife . . . are in sound, healthy and vigorous condition-in vivid contrast to the condition of the man who ran for a fourth term and withheld information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Heat About a Cold | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...Frankie (John Cassavetes). Author Reginald Rose's dialogue was blunt and crisp, with an authentic cadence and idiom. When a social worker (Robert Preston) asks Frankie why he is at home, just lying on his crumpled, ratty bed, he gets an unforgettable cry of anguish masked in a snarl: "Because I got a hole in my shirt and my brother's wearin' my underwear and my mother's got her thumb in some slob's soup . . . And you're not here because you want to help us . . . You're scared to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

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