Word: tortuousness
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...untraversed Fury and Hecla Strait were navigable. In 1858, after his fifth attempt, Captain Leopold McClintock claimed that he "steamed through the clear water of Bellot Strait this morning and made fast to the ice across its western outlet." Though many small trade-ships may have used its 30 tortuous miles in the past 80 years, on the record it has remained uncharted, impassable...
Last week they were in Venice where on the fashionable Lido Beach they entertained the former Barbara Hutton, Woolworth heiress, and her husband Count Haugwitz-Reventlow.* At a loose end on the last night of their honeymoon the Duke & Duchess hopped into a motorboat, glided through tortuous canals up to the façade of the stately Foscari Palace now converted into a school. Here in the open courtyard they had come to see Romeo & Juliet. As they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their...
...generations the English common-law notion that a husband & wife are one legal entity has colored U. S. law. Last week New York State sliced this doctrine, made it law effective Sept. 1 that "a married woman has a right of action against her husband for his wrongful or tortuous acts resulting to her in any personal injury . . . or resulting in injury to her property, as if they were unmarried, and she is liable to her husband for her wrongful or tortuous acts...
...University will not offend an institution which, despite its Nazi taint, is justly celebrated through Europe. Thus, while Harvard cannot be said to extend the warm grip of friendship she cannot be accused of holding a shillalagh behind her back. Once again the University has steered safely through the tortuous rapids of international entanglements...
...favor of having you go to help the Nine Old Men." The Republican and Democratic oldsters thereupon united to give their neophyte a hazing. That afternoon they dragged him into the midst of a complicated reorganization case, pointedly "browsed" while he tangled himself in tortuous financial discussions with lawyers...