Word: tanglin
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...rather see a happy medium. I'd like to see some woods and some animals around, and a place where a guy can get out once in a while, hunt and fish without tanglin' lines with fifteen other people down the line. But the oil is bound to bring in people, and it's bound to lose that old Alaska. A lot of places you don't even see it any more. You see locks on cabin doors. Heck, the only cabin I got with a lock on it is the post office...
...hazy about the threat to their possessions and habits. The officers had fallen into a routine to which they considered themselves entitled: stengahs or gin slings at the Raffles, diversions at two cricket clubs, a swimming club, a yacht club, a golf club, purely social clubs like the exclusive Tanglin, a race course complete with the most modern of totalisators, leisurely perusals of the Straits Times, excursions, for mad dogs and Englishmen, into the noonday sun, naps late in the afternoon, pahit (cocktail) parties, must dress, late nights, good times...