Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there were the Rude Ones who'd slam down the phone with a snarl that usually had to do with my being just like all the others. Now I'd heard about "Cliffie bitches." I kept a lookout for them vowing to be different. But here I was fitting right into the groove--lacking the experience then to know it as a groove carefully carved...
...less than a total annihilation of the male dominated system. But nobody likes a woman who is angry. Her male friends would shy away from her with a "she'll get over it" condescension, and their condescension would fortify her outrage. You feel ugly fighting with a shrew's snarl, though. It is like using brass knuckles on a balloon for a punching bag. And you begin to wonder if you are worth liking after...
...learned that Helms had already assured Gray the day before that the CIA could in no way be hurt by any Watergate investigation and he told Haldeman and Ehrlichman this. Nevertheless, Walters did go to Gray and suggest a potential CIA interest in holding back the Mexican probe. The snarl did for a time hamper the Watergate investigations, and the cause clearly was pressure from Nixon's two closest
...Aviv last summer that the government had to bring in a force of tough, green-bereted border police from the Gaza Strip. Traffic jams are commonplace; for this year's celebration, all roads into Jerusalem will be closed for 24 hours to avoid the customary holiday snarl...
Manila still impresses a visitor as an intensely Catholic and traditional city. It must be one of the few places in the world since the end of the Second Vatican Council where a Wednesday night novena can snarl traffic for miles around. The ramshackle old houses in the central city still contrast as sharply as ever with the gleaming villas in the new suburb of Makati, where private security guards carrying carbines patrol outside the smart shops. One notable change, though, is the whitewashed cleanliness of city walls that once were covered with revolutionary slogans and anti-Marcos graffiti. They...