21.   But the hustle-bustle days when several waiters pirouetted among the teeming Formica tables and takeout lines would snake along the steamy glass display case are gone.

22.   By Monday morning, the line snaked from the Tabernacle on Luckie Street, down Spring and back to Cenntennial Olympic Park.

23.   Champagne corks fly, fireworks explode and conga lines snake through the crowd.

24.   Each day, long lines snake in front of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas as Venezuelans queue for visas.

25.   Every weekday morning long lines of traffic snake out of the mountain suburbs, causing commutes to lengthen year by year.

26.   Even more surprising, the next line snaked toward a salad bar, where girls with gleaming hair pointed to a bowl of spinach with sliced mushrooms and croutons.

27.   In Morelia, lines snaked several blocks and angry citizens tugged at the sleeves of international observers and reporters to get some guidance.

28.   In South Africa, where blacks flooded to polls that were closed to them only years earlier, the voting lines snaked around for miles.

29.   In the hallway, the overflow line snaked around the corner.

30.   Long lines were snaking out of many gasoline stations as nervous motorists bought as much as they could.