My grandfather stood guiltily beside Mother Vera with his sleeves drawn down over his hands, and when his turn came he touched the barrel with the tip of one sleeve-covered finger, and only for a moment.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

There's a 90-degree turn that sends many racers crashing into the wood walls and they barrel down toward a 16-foot-high banked U-turn that puts racers nearly horizontal.

WSJ: An Icy Face-Off for Those Who Think Hockey Isn't Rough Enough

Kakuei Tanaka has become a sort of legend, practising on a vast scale what Americans call pork-barrel politics: keeping constituencies sweet with public works projects, which in turn kept his business backers happy.

ECONOMIST: Noboru Takeshita