Word: detours
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While in the Citrus State, the linksters will be staying in St. Augustine where they will play their daily eighteen over the Ponce de Leon Golf Club. On the way back, the team will detour through South Carolina, where it will play at Hilton Head Island and in Charlestown against the Baptist College of Charlestown...
Shortly before his death Holden told friends in Amman that he was going to make a detour to Jerusalem on his way to Cairo. "Haven't been there for years," he said. "I guess they consider me public enemy No. 1." Holden was joking, though it is true that Israeli officials considered him pro-Arab because of his sensitive reporting on the plight of Palestinians. Holden had also criticized Arab left-wingers for "their stupid boasts and futile gestures," and some friends believe he may have been the victim of Arab extremists...
Dodging Amsterdam's closely watched Schiphol Airport, couriers detour to Zurich, Frankfurt, Rome and other cities and then carry the dope to Holland overland. Penny-wise smugglers have even used Aeroflot's discount flights across Asia, though Soviet police crackdowns in Moscow are making that route more dangerous. Tactics change daily. "You know if we see a Chinese get off a flight from Bangkok, we're going to nail him," says one Paris-based U.S. narc. To avoid that, the triads are recruiting middle-class Caucasians as "mules" for $1,000 a trip plus plane fare...
Other library users reacted less unfavorably to the detour. "I'm slightly irritated," Ilaria Caputi, a graduate student in Romance Languages and Literature said. "It adds to the many things that normally bother one in everyday life...
...recent study sponsored by the Tasmanian police showed that the collapse of the bridge meant not just a detour but an impressive variety of social and psychological difficulties as well. "Although comparatively minor in loss of life and damage," the report observed, "it presented a problem beyond the capacity of the community to resolve...