Word: larking
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...commuter transport, in places like Paris, London and Groningen in the Netherlands, rickshaws - technically known as pedicabs or trishaws, since the drivers are cycling, not running - hold their own in tourist traffic against more conventional vehicles. "For a night on the town it's a bit of a lark," says a London theatergoer who clambered into one on a recent evening for the short ride to a nearby restaurant. Passengers are partially exposed to the elements, so many pedicabs come equipped with a blanket for cold, rainy nights. Rickshaw rides aren't cheap, though. In London, where most pedicab drivers...
...commuter transport, in places like Paris, London and Groningen in the Netherlands, rickshaws-technically known as pedicabs or trishaws, since the drivers are cycling, not running-hold their own in tourist traffic against more conventional vehicles. "For a night on the town it's a bit of a lark," says a London theater-goer who clambered into one on a recent evening for the short ride to a nearby restaurant. Passengers are partially exposed to the elements, so many pedicabs come equipped with a blanket for cold, rainy nights. Rickshaw rides aren't cheap, though. In London, where most pedicab...
...fullest expression in sentences so perfect they'll keep you stuck on a single page. It's in the task of making all those dazzling sentences add up to a novel that he sometimes goes astray. Some of the sharpest words concern Clint Smoker's odious tabloid, the Lark. What was in a terrorist group's "dirty bomb?"an editor asks. "Radioactive medical waste, Chief, plus ringworm, West Nile virus, liquid gangrene and a cladding of mad cow." The bombing story is squeezed out by news of a man injured outside a kiddies' swimming pool when he is caught watching...
...Kids might get a kick out of living Swiss Family Robinson-style for a spell, but in Renudih it's hardly a lark. Over the past three years 27 people have been killed by stampeding elephants, and several women have been forced to give birth in the treetops, without medical care. Villagers are only free to come down from the trees during the daytime, when the elephant attacks cease. Officials say hundreds of other forest villages in the region are also regularly trampled by irate pachyderms. "When I visit [the villages], I feel like I'm visiting a war-torn...
...applied there as a playwright, having sent in a play based on his experiences in the army “as a lark...