10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONCERTINA CRASH»
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concertina crash in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Those Who Dared: Stories from the Golden Age of Exploration
... like some appalling Concertina-crash on a motorway, but a crash extending for
miles and with vehicles as big as hotels.' Indeed, this was a dangerous journey,
in storm and ice and fog. Mr Anderson makes vivid those things familiar to every ...
2
DICT OPHRYS ANGL FRANC RELIE:
... à foncer) concert* ]-'-] 1. régler (par la concertation) 2. concevoir (mesures,
plans) concertina* ],--'ti:-] 1. concertina crash télescopage (voitures); concertina
folder dépliant en accordéon 2. se plier en accordéon; se télescoper concertize
jouer ...
Jacques Chevallet, Christian Bouscaren, François Gallix, 1994
3
Scott And Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth
A concertina crash ensued, and dogs, sledges, men and skis ended up in a
glorious heap at the bottom, to a cacophony of laughter, curses, barks and snarls.
Thus ended the great Norwegian depot journey, like the beginners' class in a ski
...
4
The coconut war: the crisis on Espiritu Santo
This was their third mistake of the day, after the undefended airstrip and the
concertina crash. Cook's men fired tear gas through the open windows, and the
Half Halfs scattered. At the mountain headquarters word got through about the
goings ...
5
Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography
Such exchanges across a long and fraught time-lag between dispatch and
delivery in the lap of the gods are going to pass in the night, miss, concertina,
crash, pile up, hit the buffers. This will occur in spectacular style intertextually
between the ...
Ruth Morello, A. D. Morrison, 2007
... the accelerator, heading for the opening, smashing between them, hitting both
of them with my front wings and pushing them aside until they spin, and I'm
through, and everything goes quiet. To my left lane five is one big concertina
crash.
There was a story that once, in generous or absent-minded mood, he gave a lift
to a benighted hitch-hiker who felt so defiled by the passenger-seat of the cab
that immediately after alighting he plunged into a duck-pond. A concertina crash
...
8
The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow
The Volkswagen lurched on tothe pavement, around the taxi, into which the
Rekord and the Mercedes which had involved themselves in theprotestchase
collided in a concertina crash. Twenty yards ahead,thefirst taxiwas turningright,
with ...
9
Man and Motor Cars: An Ergonomic Study
With traffic regulated into parallel single files travelling at different speeds,
however, we still have to face the problem of the concertina crash when anything
goes wrong, especially in conditions of poor visibility. It is here where electronic ...
Stephen Black (M.R.C.S.), 1967
10
The Bedside Star: a selection of mostly escapist reading ...
It turned red and I instinctively stopped, causing the fellow behind to run slap into
me, followed by 376 others in one big concertina crash. Somewhere in the melee
I lost my Walkman and a six pack. And have you noticed how some runners, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONCERTINA CRASH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
concertina crash is used in the context of the following news items.
Simon Hoggart: a satirical gadfly and my beloved brother
This concertina crash of bereavements has made me reflect in a new way on the qualities of two men whose inspiring, occasionally intimidating ... «The Guardian, May 14»
