Word: tortuousness
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...rushed by ambulance to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where Dr. Clement A. Hiebert had to do a 3½-hr. open-heart operation using a heart-lung machine to remove Kelley's bullet. But no less remarkable than Kelley's survival was the strange and tortuous route that the bullet fragment had followed. Slowed by smashing through his skull, it had landed in the left transverse sinus (a large vein). Then it had ''flowed" in the blood stream along the transverse sinus, down the main jugular vein and superior vena cava, into the right auricle...
Towards the end of the book, we do read of Lizzie's son. In addition to reviewing the story of his orphanage days told in Bottom Dogs, the autobiography amplifies the tortuous relationship between son and mother. There is sacrifice and love and anger but no accusations about Lizzie's poverty or promiscuity--"unlike Hamlet, I cannot accuse the womb that begat me." In fact Dahlberg shares Lizzie's searches for love, for sex and for enough food to live and for enough peace to enjoy living. And these searches provide the constant goals--or mirages--in an otherwise rambling...
...garrisons, broke through royalist roadblocks, and smashed the lines of the besieging tribesmen. As before, the royalists swiftly retreated to the mountains, fully expecting the Egyptians to remain in their hard-won positions. Instead, Nasser's troops plunged into the hills in hot pursuit, methodically cleaning out each tortuous ravine and occupying each ridge line before moving forward...
...Britain's John Surtees, 30: the German Grand Prix over the tortuous (172 curves) Nurburgring circuit in the Eifel mountains, in 2 hr. 12 min. 4.8 sec., to average 96.56 m.p.h. and break the record he set last year. Surtees played it cozy for the first few laps, letting the field sort itself out, then gunned his Ferrari into the lead for good and finished 76 sec. ahead of Fellow Briton Graham Hill. Bad luck dogged Scotland's Jim Clark, the reigning world champion, who failed to finish because of a burned valve. Point standings...
Ballet of Baseball. At Santiago's "Sports City" stadium, two days after Fidel's appearance at the plate, some 1,000 boys and girls in dazzling white snaked their way through tortuous drills, finally spelling out "July 26." Then, in a hilarious pantomime, 640 youngsters filed onto the field to symbolize beisbol as it is under the dread imperialist yoke -going through the motions of batting, pitching and running in agonizing slow motion. But wait! Now came the revolution-and the youths were happily scampering around like Little Leaguers. "The sport of yesterday was commercial and a means...