If ever the Anti-pointsman existed, Roger Mexico is the man. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
That Johnny had made his mind up -- he'd be a pointsman, too. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
He hated the oppositional heretics, as one should, believed that history ran on rails according to an infallible plan and an infallible pointsman, No. 1. From Wordnik.com. [Autumn] Reference
At the entrance of the inspired explanation, the expositor, bent on the defence of his own foregone conclusion, takes his stand, like a pointsman on a railway, and by one jerk turns the whole train into the wrong line. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
It might have been far otherwise had Sam been a pointsman!. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Horse] Reference
Banerjee - she gave the green signal when Jayalalitha's pointsman, AIADMK's Rajya Sabha MP V. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Stories] Reference
Delhi with new government pointsman R S Pandey, the apex tribal council Naga Hoho said the resumption of. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Belgium Prince to strengthen bilateral ties with India] Reference
The Planning Commission's PPP pointsman and Ahluwalia's close aide Gajendra Haldea can be a oneman army. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
The pointsman aloft in the signal-box made the motions of drawing, with some difficulty, hogsheads of beer. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh†™ s pointsman for climate change negotiations, Mr Shyam Saran, has quit. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News]
On April 9, Pandey, who was appointed as new pointsman for peace talks in February, will meet leaders of tribal Hohos and. From Wordnik.com. [ Analysis] Reference
Planning Commission Deputy Chairman, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, was India's pointsman in the negotiations as Singh met world leaders. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
In a few seconds it reached and passed the place where the siding was connected with the main line, and where a pointsman stood ready to shift the points. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Horse] Reference
Except for using intemperate language, the world's climate-change pointsman says he isn't guilty of anything: conflicts of interest or wearing Armani suits. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
October 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Vice-chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) Randhir Singh, who has emerged as the pointsman for the 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
Late in the same night, a pointsman, walking along the railway a little distance out of the town, came upon the body of a woman, train-crushed, horrible to view. From Wordnik.com. [The Nether World] Reference
Journalist turned diplomat Hussain Haqqani has become the pointsman in Washington to deliver the Pak message that goes beyond the usual mixture of bluff and bluster. From Wordnik.com. [Asian Tribune] Reference
'I would have preferred to pay more,' Mallya quipped at a post bidding press conference with high profile pointsman of the IPL Lalit Modi and N. Sreenivas of Chennai Super Kings. From Wordnik.com. [India eNews] Reference
However, when I got to the Kyalami intersection, traffic was crawling along happily, thanks to an Outsurance pointsman (and lady) that were doing a fabulous job of moving us all along. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
The names of these scientists was mentioned by Sarfaraz Nawaz, who was deported from Muscat, during interrogation and which were further corroborated by T Nazir, LeT's pointsman in South India. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
But Holbrooke, who has been the Administration's pointsman and most powerful person in the State Department on Afghanistan, was neither mentioned by Obama nor Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [Top Headlines] Reference
Nagaland rebel leaders Isak Chisi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah of the NSCN-IM arrived in Delhi late Saturday night to hold talks with the Centre's new pointsman, R S Pandey to carry forward the dialogue process on the Naga issue. From Wordnik.com. [NDTV News - Top Stories] Reference
Hows'ever, her father bein 'a pointsman, she wos shifted along with him to Langrye station -- that's where your son is, ma'am -- an' as we don't stop there we was obleeged to confine our courtship to a nod an 'a wave of a handkerchief. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Horse] Reference
Raje on Monday will meet senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu, appointed as the pointsman to defuse the crisis sparked after BJP President Rajnath Singh asked her resign as Leader of Opposition following the party's defeat in Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. From Wordnik.com. [NDTV News - Top Stories] Reference
All manner of cross-lines of rails came zig-zagging into it, like a Congress of iron vipers; and, a little way out of it, a pointsman in an elevated signal-box was constantly going through the motions of drawing immense quantities of beer at a public-house bar. From Wordnik.com. [Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices] Reference
By degrees his strength returned, and he displayed so much intelligence, and such calmness of nerve and coolness of courage, that he was made a pointsman at the station, and had a sentry-box sort of erection, with windows all round it, apportioned to his daily use. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Horse] Reference
New Delhi, Oct 20: Vice-chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CGOC) Randhir Singh, who has emerged as the pointsman for the 2010 New Delhi Games, has started addressing the areas of concern listed by Games Federation (CGF) president Michael Fennell here over a week ago. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Besides Bhagwat, RSS pointsman with BJP Madan Das Devi was also present. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
"He said he was a pointsman, and I asked him if he would send a train down a wrong line for fifty pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
LRT doesn’t have a great issue with this because if a switch fails a switchman pointsman for Stephen is stationed at the failed switch to safely operate it manually. From Wordnik.com. [Vancouver’s winter weather nightmare raises questions about Olympic readiness « Stephen Rees’s blog] Reference
He is the pointsman. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Will Garvie was a pointsman now. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Horse] Reference
The pointsman has made sure we'll go there. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
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