Word: detoured
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...bought to make way for the federal highway network alone. Roads will slice through densely populated cities and suburbs, displacing thousands of dwellers. They will cut across thousands of farms from coast to coast, often separating a farmer's house from his fields and forcing him to detour for miles to get from one side of his land to the other. Last week at Encino, Calif., a superhighway bulldozed its way past the front door of Hollywood Actor Edward Everett Horton, burying his tennis court, swimming pool and formal garden. Dozens of California swimming pools, their bottoms knocked...
...first announced by Britain's Sir Anthony Eden and elaborated by Dulles, the plan had been a challenge backed by the threat of detours around the canal, a sea lift of Western Hemisphere oil, and probably a complaint to the U.N. But, from the moment of his arrival in London, Dulles found only the British and French enthusiastic for this extreme potential of the users' idea-and they were bothered by the realization that the most that they could expect from the U.S. to defray the heavy cost of detour would be loans...
...after his seizure of the canal, a week after the walkout of two-thirds of the canal pilots, Nasser seemed to be making good his boast. Since the seizure, 2,432 ships had passed safely through the canal, 301 since the pilots' walkout. Thanks in part to the detour of some French and British ships around the Cape, there were no jams at the canal entrances. After a few days of limiting convoys to two a day, the Egyptians moved back to the pre-seizure schedule of three a day. After traveling the 103-mile route last week...
Back in Lusaka, an astonished official commented on Hughes's threeday, thousand-mile detour: "All that trouble just to talk to a bunch of native crackpots? You must be bloody well 'round the bend...
Brattle Streeters have one valid claim, however. The fastest way to drive to Radcliffe is along Brattle Street, because of the detour around the green, but returning from Radcliffe, the Gardan Streeters regain the advantage...