Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the three-day trial, Gallo refused to say a word in his defense, although he did allow himself a Cagney-like snarl at a haggle of assistant district attorneys. "Ya dirty rats!" he observed. The jury quickly found Gallo guilty of attempted extortion and conspiracy. The finding, his first major conviction, could get Gallo up to 14½ years in Sing Sing when he is sentenced next month...
...magnetic all-seeing eyes, he probes for Gideon's soul in a speck of human dust. Douglas Campbell can be a simple-minded oaf one minute and a Judaic Henry V the next, and his voice ranges even more remarkably from a love-lyrical caress to a doggish snarl. At one affecting moment, he says simply, "O, I love thee, Lord," and it is like hearing ineffable music carried on clear night air over still water...
...current show, it is his enviable duty to plant long-lasting kisses on the ingenue, Bonnie Scott, but he recently turned on her with a four-letter snarl and added: "Blot your lipstick or I'll smear it all over your face." And at one final curtain, as the cast soaked up the downpour of applause, Morse turned and remarked to one and all (including 60-year old Co-Star Rudy Vallee): "Well, thev liked...
Australia's Patrick White, while still a lamb in the field of letters, was unfortunately carried away by a big bad Woolf named Virginia. He still listens with the Bloomsbury ear, speaks in the Bloomsbury accent-broadened by a slight Australian snarl. In Britain, where Woolf's Bloomsbury is still held dear as well as precious, critics say he listens acutely and speaks with distinction. They have greeted all five of his novels (e.g., Voss, The Tree of Man) with little civil cries of educated pleasure. U.S. reviewers have been somewhat less impressed, and this turbid allegory will...
...detected by the Chain four miles above. The interval between the pinger's sound and its reflection from the bottom told the scientists when the dredge was on the bottom and moving with its cable at a proper angle. This eliminated "kiting" (sailing above the bottom) and snarl-ups caused by letting out too much cable...