Word: cumbrous
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Torturous as it sounds, the method is essentially painless. It is admittedly cumbrous and timeconsuming, says...
...Separation. As for the Profumo case, though an official inquiry into its security aspects is nearly complete, the government has given little assurance that it will lessen what the Economist recently called "the already cumbrous weight of suspicion that there is something nasty in the woodshed." Last week the Labor Party's "shadow" Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, called for a royal commission to investigate the roles played throughout by the government, judiciary and police...
Though it has yet to show up in sales, this determined assault on Chrysler's cumbrous structure has already shown up in the company's books. By his overhead surgery, Townsend has cut Chrysler's break-even point from 1,000,000 cars a year to 800,000. Late last month, at a meeting in Detroit, he was able to announce that, despite its whopping $21 million loss in the first nine months of 1961, Chrysler's books for the full year would be in the black by "several million dollars"-thanks to a combination...
...family. He is a novelist's device, like Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, the reporter Jim Malloy, O'Hara's man-on-the-sidelines in Butter field 8 and Sermons and Soda-Water. In the tighter structure of a play, he is cumbrous and distracting...
Short-Waved. The art of "bugging"* has made spectacular strides since the days when a microphone was a cumbrous object that trailed telltale wires and could be installed only by drilling through a wall from the next room. Slimmed to insect size by transistors and printed circuits, today's microphones can be tucked into a sofa or buried inches deep in walls or floor. With battery-powered transmitters no bigger than a cigarette pack, the new gadgets need no outside power source and can eavesdrop for two whole years without attention. In one East European capital, a foreign service...