Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make such a story seem even remotely plausible requires superlative acting, and Dean Gitter, in the title role, turns in a first rate performance. His mustachio curling and villainous chortle drew gratifying hisses from the audience throughout the play, with a roaring good snarl left over for the curtain call...
...smoke." So wrote T. E. Lawrence, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, of his World War I dynamiting raids on the Hejaz Railway, the 782-mile "pilgrim express" whose single track linked Damascus with the Islamic holy city of Medina. Lawrence of Arabia reduced most of the line to a snarl of sprung steel and splintered ties. Nearly half a century of desert winds and systematic depredation have done the rest. Bedouins ransacked the abandoned stations, pried loose wooden ties for cooking fires. In Medina the station house is a shell, its doors torn...
...sport. Mile after mile the chase goes on: the running deer all terror and loveliness, the men and the dogs all grinning the same blank, murderous, animal grin. Then all at once the deer collapses. Blood in their eyes, the men and the dogs fall upon it together. They snarl and they slaver, they tear at its throat. Smeared scarlet, Squire Western screams, and out of the melee of blood and teeth he lifts in triumph suddenly the mild disastrous head...
...Storm of Snarls. For the next 18 months, Cohn was at the center of one of the stormiest, shrillest periods of U.S. political history. Few who ever saw or heard him will forget the malevolent, heavy-lidded stare with which he pinioned witnesses; the adenoidal snarl as he closed in for the kill against a suspected Communist (the McCarthy Committee caught precious few, if any); the public obsequiousness to Senator Joe; the arrogant impatience toward Democratic committee members...
...smile on his face. Flipper leads them to a whole school of pompano, and Daddy is very happy. Next day Flipper jumps into the fish pen and gobbles up all the pompano, and Daddy is very unhappy. He dislikes dolphins anyway, because they eat a lot of fish and snarl up his nets, so he sets out with a gun to shoot some. "Even Flipper?" Sandy asks tearfully. "Even Flipper," says Daddy. But this aquatic bedtime story has a happy ending, of course. At the fade, Flipper is not only a live dolphin but a hero, even to Sandy...