Word: snarl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they found it impossible to get to any of the 31 betting windows. Already ahead of them in line were tough characters who were taking their own sweet time placing two-shilling (280) bets, counting out the sums in small coins and brushing off protests with a snarl. The insiders were placing all their money on "forecast combinations" on the three dogs most likely to lose, thereby running up the odds on the three favorites. A forecast bet is similar to a quinel-la in the U.S., that is, picking the first two finishers in order. They did their...
...tactics of the protest. The proponents of the demonstration point out that the stall-in Would give civil rights groups an invincible bargaining position for their demands on the city administration. A successful protest would embarass the city and in the future the mere threat of another massive traffic snarl would deter thousands from leaving home, decimating the revenues from the fair...
Tokyo's besieged commuters daily battle what they call kotsu jigoku - literally, traffic hell - but they are about to get welcome relief from at least one of its irritations. At a particularly nasty intersection, where queues of buses now snarl traffic, a group of entrepreneurs plans to build the city's first indoor bus terminal. The moving force behind the new, $25 million station is a man who has a special interest in the comfort of Japanese bus riders: Kenji Osano, a burly, self-made millionaire who owns most of the buses that will use the new terminal...
...result was cacophonous. A car behind Martin smashed into him and spun sideways. Brakes squealing, slewing in the slush like slalom racers, car after car piled helplessly into the snarl. When things finally skidded to a stop, 34 cars were locked in a tangled mass, blocking the expressway from curb to curb-and providing a classic picture of what happens in modern civilization when the slightest thing goes wrong...
Toughness & Charm. Rossiter concedes Hamilton's long distrust of democracy; he does not try to justify Hamilton's disturbingly petty role at the Constitutional Convention (though he reminds readers that one famed snarl attributed to Hamilton-"Your people, sir, is a great beast"-is apocryphal). Rossiter concentrates instead on Hamilton's role in the ratification and first implementation of the Constitution...