Word: tortuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tortuous nature of that language was hardly unplanned. It is not difficult to imagine the misguided logic by which charitable organizations that fund Arab groups will be defined as acting "for the denial of the existence of the state of Israel...
...decision to open the border came only after a tortuous debate within the Central Committee of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. Hard- liners argued that existing agreements with other socialist states must be upheld, while reformers said it was more important to meet international obligations, among them the 1975 Helsinki agreements and the U.N. convention on refugees. Imre Pozsgay, the party's pre-eminent reformer, told TIME, "We took the step that embraced the higher of the principles involved, that of human rights...
This touch alone reveals the reason why Le Carre makes all his alleged competitors -- the Ludlums, the Clancys, the Trevanians, even the Deightons -- look like knuckle-typers. Palfrey is describing a failure, an intricate scheme that collapses somewhere along the tortuous road plotted for its success. The world will not be saved, love will not triumph, and tomorrow will dawn with the same grimy sense of indeterminate morals and motives as yesterday. This much is certain. What remains to be discovered is the marvelously engrossing way in which everything can go wrong...
After receiving those evaluations, the department's senior faculty vote on the candidate, and, if they approve the promotion, Bok then convenes a group of outside scholars for a final review. The tortuous process comes to a close, though, with the president, who has final say on all hiring matters and has been known to overrule departments' recommendations...
...fair, skiing is more than the endurance of intense physical pain; it is humiliating and tortuous mentally as well. Start with the names of the slopes. "Suicide Stretch," "The Outer Limits" and "Kamikaze Run" are advanced slopes with names that make adrenaline boil...