Word: maze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...observed: "It destroys the potency of God-given foods." When the guide meekly suggested that beer actually was 90% water, Norwood obviously saw this only as "a trick of Satan to delude the public." In the noisy bottling house, as the cans and bottles rattled and banged through a maze of conveyor belts, a Baptist voice was heard above the din: "This canning process shows the genius of man to produce a product, and the cleverness of Satan to deceive our hearts and minds...
...month: YARD PROBES DEATHS OF 300 RICH WOMEN; YARD PROBES MASS POISONING. Papers reported plans to exhume bodies, test cemetery soil, investigate wills and drug sales. But despite a spate of stories about the Case of the Eastbourne Deaths, many a reader stumbled bewildered through such a maze of hints, irrelevancies and non sequiturs that it was hard to figure out what the uproar was all about. Reason: the tough British laws of libel and contempt that forbid newspapers to identify a suspect or connect him with a crime in any way until the police have charged...
...clear and resourceful prose, Kennan has threaded through a huge maze of diplomatic papers to present a clear picture of America's first frustrations in dealing with the new power. The very first year of the Red Revolution set the future pattern: Western liberal gullibility trying to cope with men who have raised deceit to the level of a philosophy...
...business asset." The measure of Professor Gregory's success is that his hero remains a baseball player, a big man playing a boy's game, an economic pawn hemmed in by a code of law that is "like an old lady's will amended by a maze of codicils...
ONCE printed, the magazines are sent to more than 700 distributing agencies over 400,000 miles of air routes and 200,000 miles of ocean, e.g., from the Tokyo printer to Auckland, N.Z. is an 8,200-mile airlift. Broken-field running through a maze of import controls, taxes and quotas, TLI often comes up against fluctuating money markets, which in the past year, for example, caused one nation's currency to drop from 300 to 780 to the dollar, and another's from...