Word: tortuousness
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...Jinx. To win at Chamonix, Ferries will need the speed of a sprinter and the agility of an acrobat; he must thread his way twice through the tortuous course at breakneck speed. He will have to stave off the challenge of such superb skiers as Austria's nimble Gerhard Nenning and France's bull-necked Guy Périllat-who swept every major Alpine title in 1961. Ferries will have to lick an old jinx: in 28 years of trying, no U.S. male skier has ever brought home an F.I.S. or Olympic Alpine championship. He may also have...
Behind Victorian Walls. I.C.I, for four months secretly wooed Courtaulds before news of the merger negotiations leaked from behind I.C.I.'s massive Victorian walls six weeks ago. Since then talks have followed a tortuous path as the two bargained for advantage...
Conductor Leinsdorf started again after a jump of ten pages in the score to cut out some of the more tortuous vocal passages, and Baritone Edelmann came on again as Wotan, in brighter voice after his rest. Happily, they all made it to the final curtain. "I felt like the pilot who decides on a crash landing," said Leinsdorf. "We made it without the plane going up in flames...
...Gordon Milde, to take but one melancholy example, has written a tiring, adolescent, bogus-religious, pre-New Yorkerish (one could enumerate further) bit of fiction; Mr. Roger Hagen, to take but one other, has written a tortuous, jargon-ridden assay on "new radical humanism"--his confusion is endemic...
...have been opposed for high office for many reasons, but it remained for the liberal New Republic magazine last week to find one of the most tortuous (and wrongheaded) of all. In arguing against the confirmation of John A. McCone, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the NR said: "He is the kind of man who hates Communism not because it has betrayed the revolution, but because he assumes it is the revolution. That is a flaw beyond correction...