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...level. Foot soldiers crawled up steep trails, through barbed, prickly grass. They used grenades, rifles, and mountain guns; they panted for breath and belabored pack animals. The advantage lay with the Japs, in whose rear good motor roads fed supplies and reinforcements. Behind the Chinese, communications were slow and tortuous...
Hostages (Paramount) should have an irresistible appeal to devotees of dynamite, sudden death and Luise Rainer. The picture, a tortuous melodrama about the Czech underground, brings Cinemactress Rainer back to the screen after a five-year absence. It also notably advances the talents of prognathous William Bendix...
When he became Secretary, Leger had written two thin books of verse, Eloges (1910) and Anabase (his most talked-about poem, 1924). Most Frenchmen never heard of these symbolistic efforts and most of those who did thought them as tortuous and intangible as Leger's diplomacy. But they were well read (says Hemispheres Editor Goll) at the superrealistic Wilhelmstrasse...
Artillerymen chose positions. Within two hours of landing they were shelling Jap positions at the attack's main objective - Munda airfield on New Georgia, six miles away across a tortuous, coral-pocked channel...
...narrow streets to carry out the evacuation orders. The crooked windows of the old houses spat fire. The citizens of Marseille fought fiercely; they had barricaded their doors and they shot to kill. It was not the first time they had had trouble with the Germans. In those tortuous streets and forbidding houses many a member of France's Underground had found safety and comrades with whom one could hatch out new projects of sabotage...