Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going had been gummy. For seven grinding days, the Senate's three-man War Investigating Subcommittee had groped through a maze of epithets, gags, evasions and contradictory testimony to determine whether Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo had shaken down war contractors for campaign money and graft...
Twenty-five New England delegates to the Chicago Student Conference met yesterday afternoon in Phillips Brooks House and, in discussions which dragged on until late in the evening, waded through a maze of controversial issues and proposals in an attempt to reach some tentative decisions on courses to follow at the conference opening on December...
...plan first produced the central quadrangle, built in Gothic style, with its maze of passageways and courtyards and its myriad of minute designs in stone, over which reigns the Harkness Memorial Tower. Here we find a peculiar liberal trend, for the Tower sexton mounts thrice daily to sound the chimes, not at the hours ordinarily prescribed for the sounding of chimes, but at noon, 6, and 10 o'clock. Those accustomed to the bedlam let loose over Cambridge every quarter hour, and sometimes at 20 minutes to the hour, might note this with approval...
Many U.N. delegates, like Eliot, last week lamented the oppressive necessity of committee labors, as they left the soothing color schemes of the Flushing Meadows Assembly Hall and moved into the modernistic maze of council chambers at Lake Success. But, dreary as the impending committee sessions might be, they held greater promise of concrete accomplishment than the past week of oratory. The delegates would do their real work and fight their real battles in six main committees (each composed of representatives of all 51 United Nations...
...desk, amidst the maze of blueprints and French curves, he was surprised to see a friendly, non-technical face--a small wooden frame enveloping rows of large beads. Taking note of his childlike delight at meeting an ally in the enemy camp, the receptionist explained, "They use it when the machine breaks down." And he wasn't afraid any more...