Word: tortuousness
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Still, for every tortuous inch gained, there are miles of progress left to be covered. There remain 1,888 Southern school districts where segregation is the rule-and scores of other districts where desegregation sits uneasily in token form. Though Montgomery buses are technically integrated, the city's other public facilities still are not. Team sports are still carefully segregated in a large number of Southern institutions; the NBC television network recently canceled coverage of the annual Blue-Gray football game because Negroes are not eligible to participate. Only 22 states have enforceable fair-employment laws on the books...
Doty blamed the delay on "a series of tortuous excursions" into different aspects of the general education program which various members of the committee took this fall...
...into a plot to lift 1,000,000,000 francs from the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes. But suspense-wise the film fails to break even until Accomplice Delon takes up a tommy gun, crawls on his belly through an air conditioning duct that appears approximately as long and tortuous as the Grande Corniche, and shinnies down an elevator cable into the casino's vault-just in time to break the bank...
...Ababa, South Africa's neighbors called for an economic boycott, to include the banning of South African aircraft from airports and airspace. By last week an air curtain had closed African skies to South African Airways, whose proud symbol is a winged springbok, forcing its planes into a tortuous detour...
...Porter's acceptable story (he contributes two) he calls "The Devil Will Spank" which despite a lurid obsession with the imperfections in children's teeth and hair has its charming moments. I wish he would not pause so long to build up great tortuous heaps of detail before allowing his children to move; the story emerges as a photograph of huge, static, concrete set-pieces...