Word: tortuously
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...course they were choosing instead was not clear. In their minds, the Saarlanders were choosing reunion with their native Germany, though they had no chance of such a choice. Actually, they were choosing to begin a long and tortuous quarrel within the Western family. France warned in advance that if the Saar voted nein, French control would go on as before. Sincere men in Paris and Bonn had done their best, but now the old wound was open and throbbing again...
Decision on the Snake For seven years, private-and public-power advocates have been battling over rival plans to tame the Northwest's tortuous, turbulent Snake River, one of the last great U.S. valleys still unharnessed...
...Francisco Goya died of the infection that deafened him at 47, he would be remembered only as a Spanish court painter with a knack for candid likenesses. But the tortuous, stone-silent path he entered in middle age led steeply upward, and he clambered gloomily to greatness. The blackest and harshest of the old masters, Goya made bitterness a virtue and found pessimism a fountain of youth. A big traveling show of Goya drawings, on display this week in San Francisco, proves once again how great his final achievement...
...could be no real peace." But he shrugged over a resolution, passed 367 to 0 by the House, urging their liberation. "How?" he asked. "You are certainly not going to declare war, are you?" On world disarmament, he said flatly: "It is going to be a very long and tortuous road." Disarmament always is, he added. "I have personally been studying it for 40 years." He termed last month's Bering Strait incident, the Soviet jet attack on a U.S. patrol bomber, as probably a "misunderstanding" (at week's end the U.S. decided to accept the Soviet apologies...
...Hammarskjold returned from Red China last week. As Secretary-General of the United Nations, he had flown to Peking to seek freedom for eleven American flyers and other U.N. soldiers captured while fighting in Korea. He brought back some hope for their release and some insight into the tortuous mind of their chief jailer, Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. In time, the gain may compensate for the loss to the U.N.'s prestige by his journey, which was heralded in Asia as a "great diplomatic victory for Red China." Hong Kong's anti-Communist newspaper Sing...