Word: detour
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broken arms and beaten senseless; it's that when his captors learned of his famous father and offered to let him go home, he refused unless they let the rest of the prisoners go as well. Such conduct enthralls a generation that aches for heroes and doubts the moral detour it took during the years John McCain was becoming the icon of Duty, Honor and Country. So compelling is the Story that it has helped bring him here, to a dead heat in New Hampshire with the Texas Governor: the man to whom much has been given against...
...mermaids on his walls and installed recessed fish tanks behind his homemade wall of water, creating what he calls a "life-sized aquarium." The bamboo shades and the large beach reeds he bought at Mahoney's Garden Center swayed as if the winds of the Bahamas had taken a detour through his room. Friends frequently surfed over to slime in the seaweed and bob with the kelp. They lounged on the beach chairs that covered his sand-colored tarp floor. "Swimwear was highly encouraged," Perriello says...
...little antsy after the movie, so we made a quick detour into Uno's to grab a midnight snack. I half expected to see John Malkovich in the bathroom mirror. "Hey, remember me?" said a kid standing in front of the bathroom door as soon as I exited. "Yeah, we went to camp together in seventh grade," I said, shocked that I could recall this guy's face on the spot. "Yeah. It's so funny how we keep running into each other. Camp, then Harvard Summer School, and now..." "I didn't go to Harvard Summer School," I answered...
...latest problem is just one more detour in the tedious search for Middle East peace, a process in which all sides have learned the delicate art of diminishing expectations, and how to put an epic spin on minor achievements. For instance, an agreement in the current talks will be heralded at a high-profile signing ceremony in Cairo, with Albright in attendance. Such pomp may seem a little over the top for an accord that amounts to no more than an undertaking to implement the agreement reached a year ago at Wye ? never mind that Wye itself, despite its dramatic...
...your way to the MFA, take an interesting detour at the world headquarter of the First Church of Christ Scientist (T: Symphony, Green Line). The nineteenth century Mother Church is to the Christian Scientists what St. Peter's in Rome is to Catholics...