Word: constrictor
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...Kampuchean cause before the U.N. Security Council. His 41-minute speech turned out to be one of his best ever. Without straining his credibility by defending the Pol Pot regime, Sihanouk made a strong case for imperiled Kampuchean nationalism and likened the invading Vietnamese to "a starving boa constrictor leaping on an innocent animal...
...gamely agreed to wing it with a macaw named Bob. The occasion was a fund-raising luncheon for the New York Zoological Society, which is dedicated to protecting endangered species and displaying animals in natural environments. Chancellor, a devotee of wildlife preservation, had no trouble with the boa constrictor and the tarantula that came to lunch. The macaw, however, was for the birds. "Neither one of us expected to have our picture taken together," said Chancellor. "He bit me, just to show who was boss...
...draws did not count). In the end, Karpov & Co. eked out a narrow six-to-five victory in the arduous 32-game match, fending off a spectacular late comeback by Korchnoi. The games themselves were unimpressive. Karpov stuck to the cautious approach that some commentators have dubbed "the boa constrictor" style; Korchnoi, taking far more risks, repeatedly ran into time trouble by nearly failing to make the required 40 moves in the first 2½ hours of play. "There was not a single game worth remembering," lamented England's international master Harry Golembeck. "It's a disgrace...
Deathtrap. Like a boa constrictor, this murder mystery coils lethally around its characters. Marinating menace with a lunatic humor, John Wood, a superb actor, can make a playgoer die laughing...
Karpov, the second-youngest world champion ever, is less conservative than he used to be, but still resorts to what one commentator calls "the boa constrictor style," lying in wait for his opponent to err. Spassky describes Karpov as one of a new generation of "realists" in chess: "We followed imagination, often pursuing phantasms, but Karpov will only deal with what is concretely in front...