Word: detour
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...Broadway tryouts. Sugar has been on the road for over two months, trying to get up enough guts to show its face in New York. But by the looks of things Wednesday night, even if this show took a forty-year detour by way of the Sinai Desert it still wouldn't know where to go next...
...long detour is part of the price that Jordan is paying for King Hussein's suppression and summary expulsion last summer of Palestinian guerrillas who were doing more damage to his kingdom than they were to Israel. Ever since, Jordan has been virtually blockaded by its Arab neighbors. Syria and Iraq barred Jordanian planes from their airspace, and Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods...
...them from realistically assessing the problems of developing nations. One hopes that Arthur MacEwan is wrong and that future development policies in the other DAS projects will change dramatically. One hopes that the Pakistan experience will teach the DAS that the elitist route to development is actually a frightening detour...
...from Kansas City to Leawood and points west. Then the bridge collapsed under the weight of a truck. Though insurance money was available, the bridge was never rebuilt. The street now stops at one edge of the ravine, then starts again on the other: it takes a two-mile detour to get across...
...hardly to the mystery of their capture. According to Scherrer, the plane had simply got lost in bad weather and then followed what seemed to be the Erzurum-Kars rail line. Turkish military observers had a different line of speculation. They said that the generals had taken a detour to catch a glimpse of the heavily guarded Russian border near the picturesque Turkish town of Ani, the ancient walled capital of Armenia. Emerging from a cloud bank, they picked up the Leninakan radio beaconwhich just happened to be set on precisely the same frequency as the beacon that...