Word: gruffness
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...faces were different, all right, as Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy called three men accused of being big-city pinball kingpins. But, as Kennedy expected, answers were the same: gruff Fifth Amendment monotones were rattled off by hard-eyed John Vitale of St. Louis, Michael Genovese of Pittsburgh, and Frank Zito of Springfield, Ill. Protested Zito with heavy accent: "I recline to answer." But other witnesses were more inclined. Among them...
...Casey's play with occasional interpolated musical numbers, the producers engaged Melvyn Douglas and Shirley Booth to play Captain and Mrs. Boyle. Nothing in their performances compensates for their egregious violation of the rule that he who can't sing, shouldn't. Mr. Douglas at least does a good gruff job on what emerges as a thoroughly nasty character, but Miss Booth, in what should be a congenial role, seems almost uncomfortable; her famous infectious warm-heartedness is unaccountably missing, as well as her knack for pleasant semi-singing. Jack MacGrowran, as the Captain's fairweather sycophant, Joxer Daly, makes...
...stride he advanced toward the first pipe he heard and thrust the ticket into an outstretched hand. He started to walk away but, reflecting that the ticket placed the object of his magnamimity next to him, slowed up and said, "Come on, we'll miss the kickoff," in a gruff masculine voice. Together, Vag and the urchin passed through the turnstile and out onto Soldiers Field...
...gruff Texan, Smith has become a living legend in U.S. aviation. With the shrewd calculation of a gambler, the financial sagacity of a banker and the dedication of a monk, he has propelled American Airlines into first place in the industry-and in the process has done more than any other man to improve the service and standards of U.S. airlines. Says United Air Lines President W. A. Patterson: "There's no man in the industry I respect more-and you usually don't say nice things about competitors...
Noting that "As far as the general run of public opinion goes, Harvard is a school for long-haired, intellectual, effeminate men," Percussion said the public characterized Radcliffe girls as "bespectacled, gruff-voiced, manly females...