Word: honking
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According to Rivera, the engineer of the commuter rail that struck the students told T police that he saw the students when they were only 50 feet in front of him and was not able to honk the horn or hit the brakes in time—the train would have required approximately a half a mile to be able to stop...
...fell in love with the Prius' technology, peppiness and design. But he is having one problem. The Prius runs silently on electric power at low speeds, and that can be spooky. "Driving it in a parking garage, people don't hear me coming. You don't want to honk, but folks are shocked." --With reporting by Steve Barnes/Little Rock and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit
...turned into festivals of looting and despair. But it was clear that we are living in new times, when at 4:09 Thursday afternoon the power flickered and died in the largest black-out in North American history, and instead of exploding, the cities fell quiet. Horns didn't honk. Though there were nasty exceptions here and there, shopkeepers didn't gouge, and windows didn't shatter, and most of the fires were coming off grills. Ottawa saw more looting than Detroit or Toledo. The latest test of people's nerve and grace found them equipped with both...
...calls him, is discretion personified. 'So long as I keep the lowest-possible profile, neither write nor say anything, I avoid getting into trouble,' he says. This rigorously observed tenet has helped establish Denis as a model consort ... Lanky and white haired, with a toothy grin and a nasal honk of an accent, Denis has become a cherished figure for his skillful maneuvers through the minefields of public life alongside his wife, or as he would say with precision, 'a pace behind her, old chap, a pace behind her.' He is mainly visible as the gracious host while his wife...
...next pet was an adorable baby lamb, here on a visit. For the record, baby lambs do not “baaah.” It’s more like a screeching honk, which echoes incessantly day and night from the blanketed trashcan in which he slept. In between the honks, he required bottles, lullaby singing and constant supervision. Though adorable, Harvard the baby lamb (its sister, Cornell, lived in Ithaca) was thankfully soon sent home to a family farm...