Word: tortuous
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Palestine's new High Commissioner, Field Marshal Lord Gort, drove ceremonially through Jerusalem's tortuous, tipped-up streets. Crowds shouted (in Hebrew) "Shalom"; (in Arabic) "Salaam." Both words meant peace. But the words were only words: the Holy Land was tense again with trouble. Jews and Arabs had given up open fighting for the duration. But through the Palestine censorship, tightest in the Middle East, trickled tales of Jewish terrorism against the British...
...that Allied troops had made another landing on the coast of New Guinea, for which MacArthur has been fighting 18 months. But the three-pronged landing (at Hollandia, Aitape and Tanahamera Bay) appeared more important than the early captures of Buna, Lae, Salamaua and other key points on the tortuous New Guinea coast...
...Japs should succeed in what they were attempting, the only new route for the moment seemed to be the tortuous one up the Brahmaputra by boat, then by transshipment to a spur railroad line, and thence to the Assam airfields...
...Navy at or near Palau, they would have to withdraw their supply route still farther west, to the Philippines, leaving all their mid-Pacific garrisons as well as their garrisons in New Guinea, New Britain and New Ireland at the end of a very long and tortuous line...
...tortuous mountains and jungles of Burma last week were checkerboarded with several local actions involving Chinese, British and U. S. troops against the Japanese...