Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...helpless, while firedepartment emergency crews raced from building to building to extricate the sick and the pregnant (most hospitals resorted to emergency power). Somewhere on the West Side, a tattoo artist's needle died on the figure of a purpled nymph. On the streets, the customary traffic snarl tied itself into even worse knots as the traffic lights died; on the East River Drive, a man curbed his car, took off his coat and tie, and in the grand Walter Mitty manner directed motorists for two hours...
...Wood Memorial at New York's Aqueduct race track.,Carry Back dawdled well off the pace as the pack pounded into the stretch-and anxious Jockey Sellers desperately whaled him with his whip. Angered, the colt pinned back his ears, curled his lips in a defiant snarl, and refused to run. He finished a bad second to Globemaster, whom he later beat decisively in both the Derby and the Preakness. Jockey Sellers has never whipped Carry Back since...
...from a Box. The paparazzi are a small crew-a couple of dozen at most -and they are more bullyboys than news photographers. They lounge beneath lampposts, lips leaking cigarettes, cameras drawn like automatics. "Come see lo facio secco [When he comes out, I'll drill him]," they snarl, while waiting for their quarry to open a nightclub door. Then the paparazzi attack. These days they find more and more targets. Easter is past, celebrities are drifting down the peninsula, and hot times are ahead...
...American Medical Association has consistently backed Salk vaccine as the most effective means of preventing paralytic poliomyelitis. Last week in seeming contradiction, the A.M.A. Journal printed a judgment that "much of the Salk vaccine used in the U.S. has been worthless" - a charge that could snarl plans to get millions of Americans inoculated before polio begins its 1961 northward march with advancing summer. The Scripps-Howard newspapers headlined the statement, and Congressman Kenneth Roberts of Alabama urged an investigation...
...Tape Thickens. Thanks to the snarl of red tape, nobody would- or could. The Defense Department had no authority. The FHA, which represented the U.S. in the deals, could step in only if Hayes's mortgagers would let them. The lenders, who stood to lose money if they substituted their mortgages with Hayes for lower-interest FHA debentures, refused. Continental, now suing and being sued by Hayes, is still willing to do the jobs, but insists that someone will also have to pay for the rotted materials and the many weather-soaked houses that may have to be rebuilt...