Word: maze
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a quiet calm, a calm brought about by a combination of confidence and apprehension. He has assembled an experienced, highly-competent legion of vice presidents and presidential assistants, and he has, over the past nine months, laid a careful foundation on which to build solutions to Harvard's maze of administrative problems...
...accidentally dropped a clue-a bracelet with his name engraved upon the surface. Sarah finds it, but of course she cannot read the evidence. The maniac heads back to the house to retrieve the bracelet, and Sarah's only hope of escape is through an invisible maze of doors to the stables and an unsaddled horse...
...palace houses the famed Topkapi jewels, long a must for tourists in present-day Istanbul, but the principal sight will be the intricate maze of grandly decorated apartments. They include the gilded, rococo Hall of the Sultan, where reigning monarchs reclined on a brocaded couch to watch dancing girls perform. Near by are the royal baths, which featured marble floors, golden faucets and slave girls to assist the sultan in his bath. Then there are the gilded and inlaid bedchambers...
TRANSATLANTIC travelers whose passports relegate them to over-29 status can also take their trips for less than standard fare. They must usually sacrifice some mobility, plan well in advance and sort through a bewildering maze of ticket prices. The variety is so great that each passenger in a six-across row of a 707 airliner may have paid a different amount for his ticket. The round-trip New York-London economy fare in peak season is $555, and the price is just about the same for trips between London and Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore or Washington. Some ways...
However, she, like many of the other 18 women, went on to complain that she quickly lost her initial enthusiasm for Leverett as a result of what seemed to be a maze of deadlines, quotas, applications and lotteries...