Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...immediately degenerated into a fight for the pole. It took three turns around the 2½mile track before the fast-moving field straightened out enough to satisfy the official starter. Then the green flag fell and 33 big feet pushed 33 throttles to the floorboards. The restrained snarl of the parade whined into the high-powered scream of the annual Memorial Day drive toward fame or death...
...first light of dawn, the sleepy Siak River town of Pakanbaru was wakened by the tumultuous honking and crying of thousands of disturbed jungle birds. Swarms of Sumatran fireflies, which travel in whirling galaxies resembling slowly moving fireballs, abruptly vanished. Then came the snarl of planes as a flight of old, U.S. -made F-51s swept in to strafe the shacks and hangars of Simpang Tiga airstrip, six miles southwest of town. After them came 16 lumbering transport planes; as they passed overhead, the sun-streaked sky blossomed with silken parachutes that brought 200 paratroopers to earth...
Bobby Fischer has always worked at his chess with deadly intensity- an unkempt kid, his hazel eyes glowering beneath a snarl of mouse-brown hair as he systematically plotted checkmate after checkmate. As a tyro, he bawled whenever he lost, and he did not present himself at the high-pressure Manhattan Chess Club until he was sure he could handle just about any man in the place. He was then all of twelve years...
...music, at times hideously difficult, underscores the contrast: it is at its sweetest and most melodic in Act II when the people of Israel prostrate themselves before the Calf, at its harshest when Moses struggles with his hard faith. In the arguments of Moses and Aron, the brasses snarl, the chiseled strings shriek in a web of complicated polyphony. The score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have been right when...
...world's No. 1 road-racing driver, Juan Manuel Fangio is an old friend to danger. The 46-year-old Argentine has seen its blurred face in the swirling landscape of a hundred tracks, known its angry snarl whenever his sports car skidded through a tight turn. But one evening last week he stared at danger in a new form: the muzzle of a pistol. Poking the weapon at him in the lobby of Havana's Hotel Lincoln was a tall young man in a leather jacket. "Fangio, you must come with me," he ordered...