Word: snort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bearcats and trips to Europe. She studied Sanskrit at the University of Chicago, and grew interested in Buddhism after her family doctor lent her a book on the subject. By the time she was in her early 205 she had decided that "Christianity fell far snort of what I expected from religion...
...signs of giving in, Reuther was forced to modify his position. Last week, in a "four-part antirecession campaign," he offered to extend the current contract for another three months while differences were worked out. Detroit's answer: a flat no. Said G.M.'s Curtice with a snort: "A transparent maneuver to stall negotiations until the 1959 model changeover...
Will the results please the critics-or confirm a rival's description of Desilu as "a sausage factory"? Snort Producer Arnaz, embracing the code of Hollywood tycoons old and new: "I've never yet made a show for the 21 Club or the Romanoff's crowd, and I'm not going to start now. The viewers have to be able to identify themselves with the characters or you're going to lose them. I've always got the guy in Omaha in mind...
...mind on the work at hand. He comes down the stretch as though leading a Hollywood cavalry charge. The whooping and flopping of Hartack's style distresses purists. They call him the least stylish of successful riders in the history of racing. It is a criticism that other riders snort at ("He wins, doesn't he?") and savvy horse trainers shrug away. They know from experience that Willie gets every ounce of run out of his mounts...
...production equally the shoulders on which it rests. A master of patterned action, he has established the tensions, the instinctive hates and induced animosities, the juvenile-delinquent heroics and brooding-outcast rancors of Manhattan's native-born Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks. His switchblade rumblers jeer and snort, crouch and slither and spring. Beyond vitalizing their gang spirit and varying their modes of warfare, he has managed to dance much of the documentary drabness out of the story, most of the sociological shock into it. He is least successful in a ballet where the ill-fated lovers-a former...