Word: beast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is something about driving in general that seems to bring out the beast. "It's almost a game to see how many people can make it through a yellow or red light," says Steven Beebe, a professor of communications at the University of Miami. In New York City, it is more than a game; the number of pedestrians hit by cars, many of them running lights or crowding a curve, runs to 15,000 a year. In Houston, where traffic altercations periodically lead to violence, the Chronicle offered a few friendly tips: "Try to release your anger...
...with individuals as contributors to a social compact. From John Cotton's The Way of Life (1641): "If thou beest a man that lives without a calling, though thou hast two thousands to spend, yet if thou hast no calling, tending to publique good, thou art an uncleane beast." From John Winthrop (1630), the first American to see the new land as a "City upon a Hill": "If thy brother be in want and thou canst help him, thou needst not make doubt what thou shouldst doe; if thou lovest God thou must help...
During one such raid, a peasant seems in danger of losing his prized cow to a soldier. Fortunately, the beast leads the invader into confusion: "The German on his way through the woods was making discoveries that left him openmouthed: chickens perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...
...there are 58 scheduled landings between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., although the airport's maximum is 30. The Government threat infuriated some carriers, which place much of the blame on shortages of fully qualified air-traffic controllers. One FAA official likened the airlines to a stubborn beast of burden. Said he: "Sometimes there's only one way to get a mule's attention...
...heavyweight squad that went just 1-3 last year and finished fourth at the Eastern Sprints has emerged as the Beast of the East and only a makeup date with Dartmouth Wednesday in Hanover, N.H. stands between Radcliffe and a perfect season...