Word: tortuousness
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Harvard picked up its second touchdown, to the overwhelming relief of its fans, after six minutes of the final period. O'Connell's short punt from his own ten was caught by Scott Harshbarger, who went 15 tortuous yards before being downed on the 17. Two more Harshbarger carries brought the ball within...
...price of victory was high: 7,811 Allied casualties. Worse, the defense at Salerno revitalized the Germans, delighting Hitler and encouraging him to pour more German troops into Italy. What was expected to be a triumphal march north through a beaten Italy became a slogging, tortuous, year-long campaign that repeatedly stalled and finally sputtered to a stop just north of Florence, cost 350,000 Allied lives before it was over...
...done better to choose some other novel and novelist in the first place: Snow's books are wordy enough, goodness knows, but they're not especially talky; dialogue is usually reserved for the moments of climactic self-revelation hoarded by Lewis Eliot, who then mumbles them over in his tortuous brain, and fills most of the rest of each novel with speculations about just what precisely it was that his friends actually had revealed...
...things began to go wrong. Though he has won eleven games (compared with 19 last year at this time), Whitey Ford up to last week had pitched only three complete games all season long. His arm ruined by years of throwing a tortuous screwball. Bullpen Ace Arroyo retired temporarily to the disabled list. Taunted almost beyond his endurance by beercan-throwing fans and ill-equipped to handle the problems of instant fame, Maris was hitting an anemic .249, will be lucky to manage 40 home runs this year. Manager Houk had only one .300 hitter−Mickey Mantle...
Same day, the bodies of four American servicemen were flown home to the U.S. Victims of South Viet Nam's tortuous war by chopper, they were killed earlier in the week when their helicopter crashed under Communist ground fire. Total number of Americans killed in action so far: eleven...