Word: honking
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...into an unenforced speed limit of about 65 miles per hour. Of course, there will always be the 75 year-old women who--barely able to see over the steering wheel--will drive 50 mph in the left lane and, oblivious to the glare of your brights and the honk of your horn, refuse to let you pass. And there will always be the guys in souped-up Chevy the right lane going 80 and to whom you yell "jeez, what an asshole"--who will break the speed limit no matter what...
...last December, Kroh Development was $850 million in debt, work in four states was stalled, and the firm was facing dozens of lawsuits from lenders, partners, subcontractors and tenants. Bumper stickers appeared in Kansas City reading HONK IF YOU'VE BEEN KROHED. After the firm's lenders refused to extend more credit, the brothers agreed to let Jones head the company...
However -- some really gloomy national-shame music now, if you please -- it is also true that most of what the U.S. makes and labels as beer (gronk, honk, sound of oboists performing underwater) is fizzed up and flavorless, the worst brew in the universe. Why this should be so is puzzling. Other nations do not find it impossible to brew serious beer. The Germans and Austrians are masters, of course. Scandinavians, Dutch and French are experts. Italians see no point in beer, but what they make is drinkable. Mexicans produce good summer-weight cerveza. Canadian beer includes such hairy...
...straightening, chest swelling, head lifting and tilting back. When the volunteers mumble through the first reading, she growls, sotto voce, "Come on, girls, sing!" "I was singing," comes the lament. The volunteers regroup to one side of their leader, for strength in numbers. They start to open up and "honk it," as FitzPatrick indelicately urges on the third...
...collection of splashing fountains made to look like alien space objects. The Land Plaza, with everything from a Singapore trishaw and a Philippine jeepney to a Hong Kong double-decker bus, provides comparable delights. Children, and more than a few adults, climb all over the extravagantly colored vehicles and honk their horns as if they had never heard such sounds before...