Word: detoured
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...cars are defective." You halt passenger traffic because "the stations are congested." Then you close the Autobahn bridge across the Elbe for "urgent repairs." Now, on the one precarious road to the West still open to the Western powers, jeeps and buses bounce over ten miles of a cobblestone detour, push onto a creeping, motorless ferry. When someone asks the German policeman aboard how the bridge repairs are coming, he grins: "You don't think they are real...
George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in good shape, but by the skin of their teeth. On their way to the Derby they suddenly took a detour, after an ill wind had slammed down a tree on an auto ahead of their...
...wide detour had a purpose. Astronomy, thinks Hubble, is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a genuine "call." And the only way to test a call, he thinks, is to have another calling to be called away from...
...research group happened on something with far more exciting possibilities. Physiologists have generally supposed that kidney blood circulation follows a fixed route, with most of the blood circulating through the tiny vessels in the kidneys' cortex (outer layer). The Trueta research showed that the kidneys have an emergency detour for the blood...
Wanton Waste. The politics-minded committee called the wartime work a "wanton waste of the taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...