Word: nailing
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They say that the good teams win the close ones and last night the Boston Celtics, who have been anything but a good team this year, won their second game in a row in a tense, nail-biting fashion, a 103-100 overtime dispatching of the Los Angeles Lakers at Boston Garden...
...detectives intend to nail the killer, short of slitting his throat. As one of the cops explains, punishment must precede the trial since the judge will probably release "scum" like them. The older detective, Kelly (George Dzundza), is built like a bull elephant and when he talks he trumpets. The younger detective, Jack (Jeffrey De Munn), is a fanged snake who hisses and strikes...
...showing profits like they're going out of style," says Morton Erstling, senior vice president of Eastern. Other fleet operators freely trumpet similar claims, but since most lines are foreign (Italian, Norwegian, Greek, even Soviet), privately owned and keep tightly guarded books, hard profit figures are impossible to nail down. Some lines, in fact, enjoy subsidies and tax breaks from their governments. Shipowners can cut costs by reducing crews and paring down provisions when the passenger load is light. But on some runs, 93% of the berths must be occupied for the shipowner to break even, and a half...
...buildings, factories and streets. The abstraction of architecture casts a chill over the planner's meditations. When he looks at an old man, he peers beyond individual details to "make out the final chapters of Eastern European history, its way of life down to the last coffin nail, its untold mental anguish, its ill-concealed hind thoughts, the well-tended museum of its anxieties, its fits of rage over a strip of grazing land...
...realizes--and not to borrow cups of sugar, either. It is only a matter of time before the heroic trinity of Seward, Hacker and Van Helsing realize what evil, half-human force they must fight in their quest to save Lucy. Two and a half acts later, they will nail...