Word: grunting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scuttled in for shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank President Nelson pumped one more bullet into the shaggy, dead head just to make sure...
...hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
...Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island's tinkles and cries, the voice of Monsieur Thomas Dewey...
...respected man on that power job. He could have been a construction boss, but preferred a footloose life, wandering from one line job to another, working until he had a roll and then living high until he had to go to work again. First Slim was Red's "grunt" (groundman). Slim sent up tools as needed on the hand line, tossed up bolts which Red caught with the nonchalant magnificence of a big-league outfielder. When a lineman with a hangover dropped off a tower and got killed, Slim stopped being a grunt. He was so proud...
Biography of greatest distinction was Hamilton Fish; The Inner History Of The Grunt Administration (TIME, Oct. 26), by Allan Nevins, who also won in 1933 for his study of Grover Cleveland...