Word: detour
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...scrunched along a soggy road, bearing 35 Mormon Church members back to their homes. Led by their Bishop Morris R. Perry, they had made a four-day pilgrimage to a Mormon temple at Mesa. Suddenly with a wrenching screech of jammed brakes the bus crashed through a detour sign which the driver had seen too late. Slithering off the road the bus turned over. When help arrived five Mormon women and a girl-baby were dead, all but two of the rest were injured. Said Bishop Perry: "There were only four of us able to do anything for the others...
...hotel, prevented anyone from entering or leaving. They trained two field guns on the entrances of the building, set up sentry posts and cots in the lee of the nearby Ford plant. Thus checkmated, matters rested. Cubans used to living on volcanos' edges made a 16-block detour and went on about their business...
...noon-time and the Freshmen were returning from lunch. Twenty-five out of 28 Freshmen carefully made a detour around that ladder. Then came two proctors. They, too, walked across the grass to avoid the evil omen. "Superstitious people," the reporter remarked, as he detoured around the ladder...
While motorists made a twelve-mile detour to another bridge, the Texas Rangers under mighty Captain Tom Hickman answered Governor Murray's criticism that "all they can do is cuss and shoot craps" with a public demonstration of their marksmanship. Captain Hickman shooting from the hip hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 ft. Ranger Goss, firing his pistol upside down, split a playing card...
...bacteriologists, with training and Work at Harvard, Canal Zone, Rockefeller Institute, New York City's studious Board of Health. He is a Doctor of Public Health, not of Medicine. Bacterial chemistry and metabolism had been the main fields of his research until he detoured to the study of intestinal bacteriology. That detour became a main road which led him to last week's pronouncement to some 300 scientists gathered on Northwestern's McKinlock campus...