Word: trams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...builder with the proper amount of minority workers, plywood and silver-capped teeth, will no longer be centered around the Freshman Union. In fact, the new complex will include Boylston Hall, which will only become accessible to the Union area when the University finally completes a proposed Sky Tram...
...Moscow he brazenly stole from the GRU stockroom a special kind of self- destructing film that he used to photograph secret documents, as well as hollow, fake stones in which to conceal the film in meadows for pickup by U.S. spies. To signal his handlers, he would ride the tram past the U.S. embassy and activate a miniature "burst" transmitter hidden in his pocket. During postings abroad, he would pass information face to face: in the back alleys of Rangoon or among the bulrushes along the Yamuna River in New Delhi, where his CIA contact would pretend to fish while...
Watching a putrid diesel bus slowly slogging along under unused electrical tram wires has to be one of the most existentially challenging situations in life. You could move into the "fast" lane to add a few years to your life, but then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...
...builds a theme park around them. Before the scheduled opening, a few guests -- including craggy paleontologist Alan Grant, lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls, dilophosaurs that spit venom, a famished tyrannosaurus and a Panzer division of velociraptors, the meanest and cagiest of the menagerie...
...pursuit, the sandwich checks its bank account, buys a copy of Vanity Fair and nose-dives into the T-stop. Once there it rushes past the hordes of outdated punks on the escalator, skillfully nutting one or two with its crusty end, and just manages to get on the tram going downtown (disguised all the while as a proper baguette). At your generous and unwitting expense, your ex-lunch is probably, at this very moment, holidaying in the Bahamas and sipping on fruity cocktails. Meanwhile, back in that social epicentre and fair of wit and beauty so seductively titled...