Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army radio men jumped. Down from the sky near Phoenix, Ariz, came a shrill drizzle of unmistakably Oriental jabber. They flashed an alert to nearby airfields. Out rolled patrol and scout planes, to snort and roar on the line in a hurried warmup. Suddenly somebody remembered that Chinese flyers were training in the area (TIME, Nov. 17). That was it, all right. Two of them, having a plane-to-plane chat by radio, had found piloting and talking English too tough, had relapsed into their native Chinese...
...what impressed his officers most was one snort. Said General McNair...
...shrieks of pleasure with which non-stop readers of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse sometimes curdle the late night air above pent and country houses. Aldous Huxleyans and Evelyn Waughans smile from time to time with irony and pity, but their eyelids are a little weary. Confirmed Wodehousians hoot, holler, writhe, snort, bellow, nicker, and in culminating transports, belch. Asked why, they may look blank, indignant. Anton Chekhov once said that the best description of the sea he had ever read was written by a Russian schoolboy: "The sea is vast." Wodehousians explain the master's illimitable spell just as simply...
...Yeah, I've been Coughlin all week, but it doesn't MacKinney difference if I have a short snort." Huey gulped his drink. "Say, this Israel stuff. I feel like I've been Stark with a pin. I guess I won't be Sheehan much of the game with this stuff in my Lohr egions. We'd better not Delaney longer, or I won't be able to Pilate myself to the Stadium...
Author of these Memphis blues was Ed Crump's new Police and Fire Commissioner Joe Boyle. Joe Boyle is pious, thorough, as independent as a hog on Mr. Crump's ice can be. "Boyle on the neck," his policemen call him. "Holy Joe." under-worldlings snort. "We are just enforcing the law," snaps Joe Boyle...