Word: tigerish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grotesque and vicious caricature. TIME'S New York is one which dwells pointedly on its noise, crowding, aggressiveness, hellish glare at night, marijuana, cockroach-infested kitchens, tigerish and provocative women, obsession with the present, propensity to sneer at Philadelphia and jeer at Boston, and coolness to visitors...
Toast to Themselves. At a parliamentary lunch at Chateau Laurier, Harry Truman rose for an impromptu speech. He thanked his hosts for his red-carpet welcome and tigerish ovation. Then he raised his glass of port in a toast: "The Parliament of Canada." The M.P.s broke into 0 Canada, and followed it with five verses of Alouette, while Harry Truman beat out the rhythm on the table...
...sixth round Champion Zale had a bleeding lip, red welts over both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped bone in his right thumb. Graziano's only apparent wound was a bloody nose. Groggy but still game, Zale suddenly launched a tigerish attack on Rocky's midsection. The challenger crumpled, gasping for air, and a following left hook floored him. When he finally got his wind back, he jumped up full of fight, but it was too late...
Spitting. It was then Vishinsky's turn to get up and talk. Famed as the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow treason trials (TIME, Aug. 31, 1936), Vishinsky was badly handicapped last week by having to stop every two minutes to be trans lated. His tall young interpreter, Vladimir Postoyev, became more & more agonized trying to translate Vishinsky's Soviet hairsplitting. When the agonized young man finally faltered, Vishinsky half whirled around, spat something at him, grimly watched the luckless linguist jump as though he had been shot...
George Patton, General, is a dazzling mixture. The oldest field commander of any Allied army in Europe (he will be 60 next Armistice Day), Patton is still tigerish in action. On the field he shouts orders in a high-pitched voice. He can rawhide a private or a lesser general with a flow of profanity that is perhaps the richest in all the hard-swearing U.S. armies. A moment later he can be gently lifting a wounded man from a tank, calming him with soothing words...