Word: rippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring forth was a deadline of next July 31 for really, truly agreeing on reform. Otherwise, the IMF delegates had a week to listen to speeches; gape at lions, zebras and giraffes; wander around what may be the world's most beautiful conference center; and try to avoid rip-offs on the streets...
Even where no overt violence was erupting, travel and communications were either halted or unbearably difficult. Gasoline shortages kept many cars in their garages, and virtually none would venture out at night, when roads were strewn with miguelitos-double-S-curved pieces of steel guaranteed to rip any tire. A seat on one of the few buses in service required a booking several days in advance. Trains were running, but late and overcrowded...
...course, I met a couple of important Harvard types. There was the wealthy, fantastic tennis player who left his mind behind on the team bus one day. There was an up-and-coming Texan capitalist--the counter-cultural kind who dresses down to rip you off. He pats your back with one hand, picks your pocket with the other. There was also the budding urban pol. He was one of the nicest but most difficult to live with. To see yourself as a future bureaucrat, a part of you has to have died a bit early in life...
About the size of a modern lion, the sabertooth, or Smilodon (from the Greek words for "knife" and "tooth"), had powerful jaws equipped with two long fangs that it could use like daggers to rip into large prey, notably the poky, plant-eating mastodons that also inhabited the American continent. When the elephant-like mastodons began to die out, the sabertooth's days were also numbered. Slower afoot than modern tigers and possessed of a smaller brain, the sabertooth could not keep up with speedier prey that might have assured its survival. Indeed, archaeological dating of the remains...
...this point that the movie begins to weaken. As Ivan rises to brief status as renegade folk-hero, the film loses its credibility. Ivan is more a rip off artist than a Robin Hood, an improbable hero...