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Ford had tried so hard that Jimmy Carter's narrowly triumphant Election Night was a haunting, suspenseful replica of his entire amazing, tortuous drive for the presidency. Just as he had broken out of the Democratic pack in the primary elections to win his party's nomination and hold a seemingly insurmountable 33-point advantage over Ford in the opinion polls last July, Carter was propelled into an early election-tabulation lead by the regional pride of his nearly solid native South. Then he seized two large states that had seemed doubtful: Texas and Pennsylvania. Once again...
...point of greatest significance to most taxpayers is that the bill extends at least through 1977 the $17.3 billion worth of personal and corporate income tax cuts first passed last year. But extension of the cuts had never been in doubt; the reform provisions were another matter. "A long, tortuous struggle," sighed House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman, and indeed it was. His committee began work on the bill more than a year and a half ago and produced a reasonable bill passed by the House last December. Despite this effort, the Senate version, passed last month...
...first glance will not seem very surprising. But in fact the U.S.S.R. has an elaborate and, on the surface, enlightened legal code that -since the days of Stalin-has customarily been followed. One of the fascinations of Courts of Terror is its depiction of a government in the tortuous process of subverting its own laws for reasons of propaganda and political expediency...
...view, one recalls, E. Howard Hunt (Lars Haglund) once forged a cable linking Kennedy personally to the political murder of Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem. How much more convenient to revive a similar charge in fiction, transferring it to Rio de Muerte - and to imply that through a tortuous trail of Democratic cover-up and CIA blackmail, the road came back to Watergate. Timothy Foote
...arising, an effort, a good break, a sweat, a bath, a meal, a love, a sleep--imagine it achieved; then imagine trying to apply this standard to the horribly complicated mess of living, where nothing, even the greatest conceptions and workings and achievements, is else but messy, spotty, tortuous--and then one can imagine the confusion that Ring faced on coming out of the park...