Word: snails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...serious situation. Entirely apart from skulduggery and influence-peddling, the critical fact is that the federal regulatory agencies, which make decisions vitally affecting both industry and the public, are not doing the job they are supposed to do in the way it should be done. They operate at a snail's pace in a jet age, bog down helplessly in incredibly lengthy and complicated procedures that entail enormous delays and staggering expense to all involved. Items...
Your Oct. 14 cover showed the U.S. repairman astride a snail; maybe you should have had another cover showing a genuine scientist sleeping next to a hare while a tortoise was in Siberia launching his Sputnik...
Before these two books, the male reader's heart is likely to shrink within him like a salted snail. They tell the stories of two overpowering women, different largely in the type of power they used. Harriet Hubbard Ayer carried culture between her dazzling teeth like a cutlass; Catherine Glynne Gladstone wielded a feather duster of a featherbrain. Both weapons were equally effective...
...partners, now his. because they are just as mean and avaricious as he is. In fact, Wilde distrusts the whole safari-even the coy lady anthropologist (Donna Reed) and her missionary uncle (Leo Genn), and certainly the natives, as shifty-eyed a pack as ever whetted spears. The snail's pace direction makes it seem they will never find that blasted mine...
Natural Balance. Similarly, the Helix snail, presumably imported from Europe, did not become a hazard to citrus groves until it reached California. In effect, what the biologists hope to do is restore a natural balance, which was upset when the Helix left home...