Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promptly at 2 p.m., Fred Ruble of Denver began a soaring demonstration in his sail plane and drew gasps of delight and awe. Just after he landed, the crowd heard the snarl of a plane coming in fast and low. It was 1st Lieut. Norman L. Jones of Denver, an experienced Air Force pilot, arriving in a low-wing monoplane. He was late. All pilots had been instructed to report by 2 for final briefing on safety. He zoomed the plane over the field at a 45° angle, just 200 feet off the ground, trailing smoke from the skywriting...
...again in 1943, the Marine Corps was ordered to take draftees, not because it needed them, but because so many tough young men volunteered that the other services felt cheated. The Marine Corps fixed it so that draftees could specify their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there...
...most notable of all the prizewinners was vast, maternal Mme. Denise Muairon, 52, an imposing pillar of Parisian lovability. Mme. Muairon, the concierge at Numero 19 Rue Daru, belongs to a profession that is usually rated about as amiable as a barbed-wire fence. Unlike her colleagues, who snarl at one and all indiscriminately, Madame has smiled benignly from her glass-enclosed niche at No. 19 on a succession of some 32 tenants, at least one of whom (Georges Clemenceau's daughter) remembered her in a will. When not smiling at her tenants, Mme. Muairon impartially turns her beatitude...
...came from the strike of 16,000 C.I.O. equipment workers in A.T. & T.'s subsidiary, Western Electric Co. Though they were on strike in 43 states, the workers knew they couldn't completely disrupt telephone service. There were just too few of them. So to snarl the maximum of telephone lines with the minimum of means, the strikers began what they called "hit & run" picketing. They would show up at one exchange and when telephone workers refused to cross picket lines, supervisory workers and executives would have to be pressed into service to man the switchboards. Then...
With a great leap he dashed into the middle of the snarl, and, with appropriate gestures, had the entire jam straightened out in five minutes. Grateful drivers tooted their horns in tribute to the hero, but the Cambridge police soon rushed up and forced the student back to his books...