Word: ruts
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...sled was too fast for its own good: on a practice run, Steersman Larry McKillip hit a rut and lost control coming out of Shamrock Bend, and smashed full force into the retaining wall. The sled's frame was hopelessly bent, and McKillip bruised an arm. The solution seemed obvious: slow down. But that didn't work, either: Steersman James Hickey took the four-man G.M. sled into Devil's Dyke so slowly that it could not hold the wall. The sled dropped like a stone from the face of the curve, and the runners were damaged...
...American imagination has largely outgrown the old New England symbols of summerhouse and Christmas tree, kites and the Fourth of July. In adhering to them, Scott will not change the course of modern poetry, nor is he likely to serve as an inspiration to the younger poets. Rut he can often teach moderns a thing or two about love and other excitements they have lost or unlearned. As he wrote in an earlier volume...
...thing about Broadway's first mash-hit play this season is that it could have been a flop. The plot and one of the sight gags are middle-of-the-rut, but the comedy never bogs down because it keeps taking fresh and fanciful detours. Mike Nichols' direction and Neil Simon's quip hand are faster than the most jaded playgoer's recollective...
...clothing can be confusing. The wide variety of makes, cuts, weaves, and patterns presents an enigma to the prospective buyer of a suit. As a result, he will often remain in a rut. Yet, with a little background, the uninitiated can differentiate quality products from inferior ones and can select clothes that are both smart and congenial...
George R. Stewart writes inanimate prose about inanimate heroes. His best-selling books-with titles like Storm, Fire, or U.S. 40-generally describe some vast entity of nature or engineering and its ef fect upon scores of tiny lives. His new book might have been called Rut. Its chapters are headed "1841," "1842" and "1843" and so on, as year by ox-drawn year he records the development of the overland route to California. Back and forth the reader travels, five times in the first 100 pages alone, until a pair of transcontinental grooves has been worn into...