Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hills. There, any second now, the leading car would appear. The noise came first: the rising nasal whine of a V-8 engine echoing off the hills; the gastric grunts as its driver worked down through the gears from fourth to second for a 60-m.p.h. curve; the throaty snarl as he stepped on the throttle, flashed into the open at 90 m.p.h. and vanished around still another bend...
Simplicity of language, on the other hand, does not prevent what Critic Erich Auerbach described as "artful and meticulous composition unequaled in the whole of literature." The last canto of I'Inferno, for instance, descends to the depths of despair through a brilliant cacophony of rhymes that snarl, snigger, squeak, squitter, screech like a sackful of demented imps. And the structure of the entire poem is a miracle of symmetry; all its canticles are consciously articulated in a great Golden Section, an ancient system of proportion in which the nature of God and the structure of the human soul...
...after man, 3) a four-party orgy that is so permissive it becomes a bore, and 4) a young man who takes his fiancée's beloved dog to a vet to be killed, to a taxidermist to be stuffed, and then leaves it, displaying a lifelike snarl, in the middle of the floor to welcome her home. It's clear he is not Mr. Right either...
sable stole. And her voice still ranges from purr to snarl in I Want to Be Evil ("I want to wake up in the morning with that dark brown taste, I want to see dissss-apation in my face"). She had to cool off one ringsider with "I only sing these songs; I don't live them...
...appointing Supreme Court Justices for political reasons is dubious business. Teddy Roosevelt thought he had a dutiful trustbuster in Holmes. Then Holmes handed down his first important dissent in favor of a big corporation, inciting T. R. to snarl that the new Justice had less backbone than a banana. The early fruits of Black's appointment were equally bitter. Choleric ex-NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson denounced him as "a born witch burner -narrow, prejudiced, class-conscious." Not only did the New York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that...