Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep thinking I shall awake soon from a bad dream." So said a young Rumanian last week, as he watched bulldozers and mechanical shovels snarl and roar through the debris in downtown Bucharest caused by the most devastating earthquake in the country's history (TIME, March 14). Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu announced that the death toll for the country had reached 1,387; he estimated the number of wounded at 10,500, including 2,500 who were still hospitalized. The 20-second quake, which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by 20 minutes...
...many adversaries shrill in the same vituperative key. Even lovers snarl their sweet nothings, as if they were pouring poison into each other's ears...
...stacking boxes into an arch. "My group, we used to build things--castles, huts--anything we could use. They say children who play war grow up peaceful." Peter is the agitator of the lot, an anarchist who feeds to a begging hippie shrimp that customers, as the disgusted workers snarl, "pay good money--$2.85 a pound--for." He echoes a Shavian respect for "the able-minded, able-bodied pauper," who refuses to squelch his imagination in the ranks of unskilled labor...
...runs more than 400 programs, employs 129,000 people and spends $118 billion, nearly one-third of this year's entire federal budget. To show its present snarl of red tape-and the need for reform-President Ford had a "mess chart" prepared on the health services provided by the department. The entire chart is shown on the opposite page (actual size: 4 ft. by 11 ft.). The adjoining segment is reproduced to give a closeup idea of its complexity...
...place." And, except for their rather cavalier attitude toward the sanctitiy of the sidewalks, it seems to me that it is the dogs, far more than either the students or faculty, who could serve us all as a model for good citezenship and good fellowship. If they occasionally snarl or squabble over a bone, the battle is short and direct and the motive far more pressing than tenure or trendiness. If some of them are not too bright, they make no effort to veil the fact under layers of cant and credentials. And, on the whole, they seem...