Word: detour
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...windows of shops in India went signs: BOYCOTT ZANZIBAR CLOVES. Patriotic Indians complied, but the effect was only to stimulate the business of French plantation owners in Madagascar. And shiploads of Zanzibar cloves got round the boycott by making a detour call at Madagascar on the way to India. So last January, Vallabhbhai Patel decided that till the Sultan of Zanzibar came to his senses, patriotic Indians should eat no cloves at all. For four months National Congress pickets walked mournfully up & down in front of Indian warehouses...
...parade started, 1,000,000 New Yorkers were lined up along the sidewalks to watch it. Shops along Fifth Avenue, closed for the day, had boarded up their plate-glass show windows. Traffic for blocks on both sides of the city's central artery was ordered to detour. Some pedestrians who wanted to cross town had to hang to mail trucks...
...this is removed at one time, the owner usually dies. Scientists in Russia claim to have removed the entire blood supply from animals, chemically "washed" it, replaced it without apparent injury. Scientists everywhere would consider this an extremely dangerous experiment for humans. Yet it might be possible to detour the bloodstream so that only a few ounces would be outside the body at any one time, yet so that all of it would pass sooner or later through the detour where it could be treated for blood infections or impurities...
...Traxler and Tindol routed out James E. Denton, a frail middle-aged oil pumper and took him and his car. Later in the morning after driving through Caddo, they seized a farmer, Fred Trimmer, and changed cars. They had several close calls driving through towns, and going through a detour where a road gang was working...
...their taxi odyssey the Smiths paid a 25?-a-mile rate and Carnaggio's hotel expenses. They put up $1,000 bond to permit the cab to enter Canada, followed Carnaggio's suggestion to detour and see the Dionne Quintuplets. In Manhattan they stayed a week at the Gramercy Park Hotel. Then Carnaggio put them on the Berengaria and Mr. Smith peeled off $625 plus a bottle of Mischief perfume, which he manufactures. On the trip the Smiths lost a Voigtlander camera. To show his thanks, Driver Carnaggio bought a new one for $30, mailed it to England...