Word: snarls
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...their bridal night Stephen gets drunk and breaks down her bedroom door. Although they seem to do nothing but snarl at each other from then on, this refined bit of symbolism results in a son. As a sort of judgment against them, the son is born clubfooted. Stephen works hard to make a man of him-too hard to suit mother. Eventually the little boy, hearing his parents quarrel, falls downstairs and dies. The stockmarket does the same...
...commanding robot was a snarl of electronic equipment affectionately known as "the Brain." Everything it did on the long flight was "preset" before the start. In mid-Atlantic, the Brain picked up radio signals from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Later it picked up a beam from Droitwich, England, and followed that for a while. When the plane neared Brize Norton, the wide-awake Brain concentrated on a special landing beam from an R.A.F. radio and made a conventional automatic landing...
...With earnings dropping sharply from wartime peaks, New York's taxi owners resolved to ask their irascible drivers to shave more often, dress better, and substitute a smile for the wartime snarl...
Lassie takes about 15 whining and barking cues a week. He also pants with exquisite nuance (and with considerable editing by the sound panel), but cannot be depended on to growl or snarl...
...appropriation bill had reached the President's desk. Three other appropriation bills were ready for Senate-House conferees, eight were waiting House or Senate* action. To provide pay for federal employees in fiscal 1948, Congress would have to authorize continued spending at the present rate until the legislative snarl could be untangled...