Word: snores
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...16th floor of No. 35 Seacoast Terrace, a brand-new building in Brooklyn, and its walls are very thin. When he goes to bed, his head is only a matter of millimeters from the head of Sam and Ida Gutwirth's double bed. And Sam Sheir snores. Not only does he snore-his snoring style was described at a hearing in Brooklyn Criminal Court last week as "of gigantic proportions, an animalistic roar, lionlike, that vibrates the rooms...
...Gutwirth rented a sound-level meter and measured the lionlike snores of Mr. Sheir as they came through the wall. A newspaper reporter who auditioned the Sheir snore, live, felt that all this electronic gear was unnecessary because "even to the naked ear [it] sounded like a circular saw going through a pine knot...
Judge Matthew Pagan, who lives-quietly-in a substantially soundproof, 50-year-old brownstone and seems to feel that things have come to a pretty pass when a man can't snore the night away in his own bed without being afraid of waking the neighbors, suggested that both consult their landlord about what might be done to dampen the high fidelity of the Sheir snoring, and that everybody show up in court again next month...
...usually they showed mild interest and only slight fear. After a few encounters, Schaller and the animals were on the best of terms. He often crept close while they were bedding down for the night, and he slept less than 100 ft. away. He reports restfully that they never snore. But wide awake they are far from silent. Sometimes they purr like large contented cats, and for special occasions they make a great variety of noises: grunts, grumbles, barks, yips, whines, hoots and roars, and com plicated sounds that the adventurous zoologist describes...
...established, there will be difficulties later. Even if the beginning reader knows the meaning of such words as igloo, bamboo, racoon, etc., which is doubtful, he will have a tough time with the context of something like "The song of the toot root has made the princess snore...