Word: detours
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When it seemed that millions of people would give their left arms for tickets to the World Cup soccer match, Kissinger came up with some choice seats without any strain. He ordered his jet to take a detour for one game, and was lifted by Luftwaffe helicopter to the playing field. When he got to his hotel in Munich for the finals, there was a call waiting for him from Elizabeth Taylor. "She wanted to get a briefing on the European Security Conference," he said, the old Kissinger grin growing wide above his chins...
...doesn't seem like it matters much what sex the person is who waves a flag to direct cars around road construction. But it sure appears to make a big difference to some people. A group of men in a Pinto were run off a single lane detour road into soft sand this week when they steamed right past a long line of cars being held by a flagwoman at a construction site in New Hampshire. For some reason, they didn't believe the young woman as she tried to tell them that the traffic on the one-mile detour...
...schedule for Ford's visit, which includes a speech at the Sheraton Hotel in Boston, does not allow time for a detour to Cambridge, Richard N. Smith '75, program director for the Republican Club, said yesterday. For that reason, the visit was shifted to the Harvard Club which is near the Sheraton, Smith said...
...those of us who first grasped for maturity during the decade past, a Dylan concert is a three-hour detour through deja vu. Like images on Plato's cave, Clearasil coeds with Joan Baez hair and men silently hunkered inside thick pea jackets appear and quickly pass- yesterday's graduate students, now headed toward paunch or pregnancy. Dylan concerts draw people who inhabited the fringes of campus teach-ins, rode Mississippi freedom buses and marched down endless University Avenues searching for an end to the draft...
...wall by the cash register is a slightly crumpled napkin on which is written: "I've been a driver for 29 years and I bring my truck 40 miles out of the way to eat at Helen's every chance I get. And I'd take a longer detour...