Word: labyrinth
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With plenty of troubles of her own, Bolivia has been a favorite field for Nazi intrigue. Since most of her food is imported, there is a chronic food shortage, a steadily rising cost of living. And, partly as a legacy from her dictator regimes, her political scene is a labyrinth of splinter parties...
Died. Sir Arthur Evans. 90, the British archeologist whose excavations in Cretan pasturelands uncovered the wholly forgotten Minoan civilization and pushed the frontiers of Aegean history back 2,000 years; in Oxford, England. At Knossos he unearthed the labyrinth made famous by Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur; reconstructed the Palace of Minos complete with murals, plumbing and sunken bathtubs; found evidence that the 2,000-year-old kingdom was overthrown suddenly by seaborne invaders who took the city by surprise and burned the palace...
...Washington are ten coding and cable rooms, isolated from other offices by heavy wire screens. The guarded outside gates are locked; the heavy wire doors connecting the ten rooms inside are unlocked only to let employes and rare visitors slip from one room to another. Well within this labyrinth, in a small room under four yellow ceiling lights, sit the closemouthed, fast-moving, middle-aged men who operate the Morse key and teletype machines. Incoming messages are passed across the hall, decoded, routed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and his assistants. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days...
...only 23 months ago masses of defeated Loyalists jammed the narrow roads trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended on a British victory, though a big section of the Government believed a British victory impossible. It was a France that looked toward U. S. aid to the democracies and yet believed that U. S. aid would...
...historical perspective, the economic doctrines, as milestones in capitalistic development, assume a fuller meaning than they possess on the blackboard. In the chaos of the vacuum, they provide, indeed, the celebrated "principles"--which the bewildered student drops one by one as he enters the labyrinth of real-life economics...