Word: hairpinnish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complexes of Italy with France, Germany and the Low Countries. Truck traffic over the Alps now takes a road full of steep grades and blocked seven to eight months out of twelve by snow. An alternative all-year route along the Mediterranean is shunned by truckers as hilly and hairpinnish. For tourists, the new tunnel will shorten the present Paris-Rome trip by 85 miles and many low-geared climbing hours...
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