Word: tortuousness
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Four months, one sit-in, and countless committee meetings have passed since then. And now the tortuous machinery of Harvard's academic bureaucracy has digested this fall's proposals and is finally ready to determine ROTC's fate...
...made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates in Foggy Bottom. Financially, at least. Last week a report on the contributors to his 1969 primary campaign showed that a slew of senior State Department officials have chipped in to re-elect Rooney. Among them: Angier Biddle Duke, Ambassador to Denmark...
...most formidably inaccessible places is the labyrinth of arteries inside the brain. But at the latest meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Sadek K. Hilal demonstrated a catheter with a magnetic tip that "swims" through small and tortuous arteries and can be guided to the exact spot that the radiologist or neurologist wants to reach...
...things that angry students had yelled all along. Kids don't like him, he sadly realized, and black people probably thought he didn't like them. The unexpected admission and the apparent sincerity were disconcerting. Students in the audience, scrambling to preserve the bogeyman image, come up with tortuous explanations. All this humble business was a big show, they said. Nixon's just trying to fool...
...thorny questions" raised by an AWOL marine seeking sanctuary in the Andover chapel. Students have already pledged to support Paul Olimpieri with passive civil disobedience, should federal marshals come to remove him, and for a faculty that last fall supported divinity school students resisting the draft, it would tortuous to cast out a marine deserting in moral disgust at the Vietnam War or to condemn students trying to help...