Word: tortuousness
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Gentlemen. ... It was all Tunney could manage to get down the trail at all, any old way, let alone trying to "dogtrot." You have to see the Bougainville terrain to appreciate how tortuous it is. Although he is in excellent condition, I think that he will be first to admit that the bulk of the "puffing" was done by none other than Gene Tunney himself...
...high Vichyite brought to bar for trafficking with Germany. But the courtroom mirrored more than one man's struggle. All week long, before a military tribunal headed by Judge Léon Verin, impassioned Frenchmen of the Left, Center and Right denounced and defended Vichy's tangled, tortuous policy of collaboration...
...play is one of Saroyan's simplest, even though the third act centers around a live man in a casket. Saroyan is going classic: he introduces clowns in the Elizabethan manner and their lines are downright Shakespearean, especially in their tortuous humor. He also uses the device, familiar to students of early drama, of punning in the choice of names for his characters. The true Saroyan touch appears here in the simple revelation that the five characters named Hughman (five Josephs, one Mary, one Ernest, and one August) are not related. In fact, none of them even knew...
...concept which Americans hold most dear is Justice. And to U.S. legalists the swift action of East European trials smacked unpleasantly of the drumhead. Will the war be won if Justice is lost? Yet what shall the U.S. reply if, attempting to impose its code of elaborate safeguards and tortuous delays, its injured allies turn on it and cry: "Did they burn your homes? Did they murder your wives and children...
...Chinese, trained and equipped by Americans in India, carried the heaviest burden in this opening phase of the continental offensive. In the tortuous jungle country before them, supply was the key to military success. The Jap relied on broad rivers, motor roads and elephant trails leading from his main Burma bases to the northern front. Against his communications Allied planes hammered steadily all week. But the Chinese columns, commanded by Lieut. General Sun Li-jen (pronounced soon lee-run), a V.M.I, graduate, and hardboiled, aggressive U.S. Brigadier General Haydon Boatner, were venturing into an almost trackless wilderness. To avoid backbreaking...