Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Danny, a fiery cellist with wild red hair, played soccer like a fiend and took young girls for midnight riders on his Honda-destination always a mystery, Deborah, a violinist, was less flamboyant, but ended up in a tortuous love affair with a boy 15 years her junior. Pianists Sven and Andrew seemed normal enough behind the keyboard but suffered a manic addiction to killer basketball, in which the object was not so much to get the ball in the hoop as to tackle whoever had it while ripping to shreds as much clothing as possible. Others were downright eccentric...
...Courtney Stimpson, the road to the top has not been long, nor has it been particularly tortuous. As a ninth grader Stimpson began playing squash near her Lake Forest, III, home, and a year later she was on the varsity team at St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. By her senior year Stimpson was a second year captain and the team's number one player St. Paul's subsequently went on to win the prep school championships that year and the team traveled to England to compete in tournaments there...
...tortuous campaign for the Democratic nomination, already four months old and designed to last another seven, last weekend's caucuses have so official bearing. Delegates selected at the meetings are neither legally nor morally bound to support any candidate at the May 22 nominating convention in Springfield. Nor must party members stick to the choice of that gathering. The politician with the (D) after his name on November's ballot will not be finally selected until the September primary...
That was quite an impressive showing for a squad which lost seven of its starters from last year's varsity. To compensate for the lost manpower, coach Bob Scalise worked the booters into shape with tortuous triple sessions in early September, an experience most of the booters would like to forget. But to fill the holes from last year's lineup. Scalise looked to a bumper crop of freshmen, unquestionably the big surprise of the season...
What a waste it would be after 4 billion tortuous years of evolution if the dominant organism contrived its own self-destruction," Carl Sagan, popular guardian of the cosmos and professor of astronomy at Cornell, told a crowd of 2,000 in Ithaca, N.Y. "We are the first species to have devised the means." George Kistiakowsky, an adviser to President Dwight Eisenhower who had worked on the Manhattan Project, told a Harvard audience: "If I knew then what I know now, I never would have helped to develop the bomb." At U.C.L.A., Governor Jerry Brown declared: "It's possible...