Word: detour
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...Captain Troy King had only highlighted Route Blue--a straight line to Nasiriyah. There was a fail-safe in place, or at least it had been. A checkpoint at the crossing of Route Blue and Route Jackson had been manned by soldiers to direct stragglers to the detour, to safety. But by the time the 507 finally got there, it had been abandoned...
...Stralsund was once represented in the Bundestag by Angela Merkel, who unseated Gerhard Schröder last fall to become Germany's first female Chancellor. Bush and Schröder barely spoke, but Bush and Merkel hit it off when she visited the White House in January, and the overnight Stralsund detour is indicative of the President's new stab at European diplomacy: find friends, even if the effort takes you to out-of-the-way places...
...unexpected detour lands Lightning in Radiator Springs, a southwestern hamlet off Route 66 that lost its bustle and prosperity when the Interstate went up ages ago. The town's pulse--does it even have one?--doesn't suit Lightning, who's itching to get to L.A. for the biggest race of his young career. But he's stuck in nowheresville, obliged to repave a road he had torn up on his way through...
...very good indication that he’s willing to carry on the task [of reunification].” In addition, Ma is an advocate for direct flights between Taiwan and China as a catalyst for improved communication. Currently, planes flying between Taiwan and China are required to detour over Hong Kong, Ma said. Other audience members asked about Ma’s position on Taiwan independence, his thoughts on Taiwanese cultural identity, and his comment on Academy Award winner of Best Director Ang Lee being the “pride of Asia.” “He?...
...walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” Captain Morgan Brown, it seems, is the rare individual to have done practically everything but that.How ironic it would be, on the doorstep of bigger dreams, to take an unexpected detour. It wouldn’t be the first time.—Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...