Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With a snarl and a derisive wave of the hand, a member of the starting team of Bok's Indoor Joks thus dismissed the possibility that the Crimson's unbeaten, unchallenged, and generally unnoticed basketball team stood a chance this morning, when it takes on an arrogant Administration quintel at 10 a.m. at the Hemenway Gymnasium...
...mugs, sings lying down, and once, in Buenos Aires, even danced the tango with six Argentine stagehands. All in the cause of easing tensions and clearing the way for creative work. "Beverly, was that an F and G in your part?" Conductor Aldo Ceccato once asked during a snarl-up in a recording session. "It could have been a K and L, the way I sang it," she replied...
...Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen was free to strike last week as Government-imposed restraints expired. Though a strike that would snarl the nation's rail system is possible, the indications are that the signalmen will await the outcome of contract talks involving the larger shopcraft unions before pressing their demands. They want at least a 54% increase in their $3.78 an hour wage over three years...
...surge of trading has roused fears that Wall Street may again be heading into a repetition of the paperwork snarl that overwhelmed brokers from 1967 to 1969. Chairman Donald T. Regan of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith last week urged that brokerage houses be prohibited through quotas from accepting more trades than they can process without delay. Recognizing the danger signs, the New York Stock Exchange last week ordered one medium-sized firm to limit the volume of its business...
...Magnuson's bridgework gleams in a smile of childlike innocence, and bromides fall from his lips like gentle rain. On the ice, beware. The angelic face twists into a toothless snarl, while the bromides give way to threats of mayhem. Magnuson is a "policeman," a player whose job it is to keep the other team in line. Other than football, no team sport puts a greater premium on bodily contact than hockey-the crunching board check, the elbow-flailing combat for the puck behind the net, the boiling free-for-all over real or imagined irregularities...