Word: labyrinth
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Ecrie is the world to described Warren House, in whose labyrinth of hallways, trap doors, secret stairways, and weirdly built rooms the heads of the English department make their workday nest...
Today the prosaic men of the English department daily find their way through the labyrinth to get to and from their classes, and the mystery and wonder of Warren House and Henry Clark Warren are being slowly ground back into dust by their everyday heels...
...belching statue of Ba'al Hammon, whose appetite was for little babies, the reclining couch strategists of Carthago reasoned that the root of the failure lay in the refusal of the Hasdrubals, Hamilcars, Hannos and Himilcos to profit by the example of Daedalus. Imprisoned by Minos in the labyrinth in Crete, Daedalus had fixed wings to his shoulders with wax and flown to Sicily. Had the great Hannibal been home, instead of wandering about Italy hunting for legions to defeat, they assured one another, he would have known how to adapt the solo flight to military needs. He would...
...complex in the U.S. Sugar is effectively controlled through 17 refineries; gasoline is carefully checked through 500 refineries. But meat grows on millions of U.S. farms and ranches, is slaughtered in tens of thousands of big and little abattoirs, is sold in 223,000 butcher shops. In this economic labyrinth the meatlegger finds easy pickings. Because he sells at prices 10 to 200% above OPA-fixed levels he easily outbids legitimate packers in dealing with stock raisers with itching palms; because he has choice cuts to sell he easily outtrades honest butchers...
...Andre Breton for the benefit of French prisoners of war, it also had a striking installation: a cat's cradle consisting of miles of string woven all through one exhibition room. As an added attraction a number of schoolboys were employed to play catch with footballs over the labyrinth...