Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...judge's thoughtful decision deservesfurther study before we decide whether to appealit to the first circuit," Stern said. Jeanne M.Kempthorne, the assistant U.S. attorney, said thatStearns "ordered the order of dismissal on January12, so we would have 30 days from that date" tofile an appeal...
...they are bringing forth a tragic epic, not a silly melodrama, and therefore much blood must be spilled before whoever is left standing at the end is granted peace and wisdom. That most of the dying results from a bootlegging operation Tristan starts up during Prohibition tends to short-circuit whatever impulses toward terror and pity we might still have. Running hooch in from Canada is not an occupation we usually associate with profound drama, especially when it is centered on a figure who is literally a deadly bore...
...WALK IN A CIRCLE around the courtyard of the Beijing bungalow that 90-year-old Deng Xiaoping shares with more than a dozen members of his extended family, the distance covered would add up to exactly 165 yds. Until last year China's most powerful patriarch would complete this circuit 20 times in the course of his two daily walks. He was extremely serious about his count, carefully ticking off the rounds to himself each time he finished...
...past five years, two all-female crews have sailed the 33,000-mile Round-the-World Whitbread, the most punishing of fleet races. And on the international regatta circuit, the number of women on crews has crept up. But so far, the America's Cup -- sailed on the world's biggest, fanciest racing yachts in one-on-one matches -- has remained off limits. Although several owners' wives sailed in pre-World War II Cups, only three independent women sailors have participated in Cup trials in recent years. Was it the old saw that women bring bad luck on a boat...
...Supreme Court, in denying Mr. Jacobs' stay, did not issue an opinion. How could they? How could they endorse the preposterous claims of the lower court, even implicitly, by claiming, like the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans: "It is not for us to say" who in fact pulled the trigger...