Word: tortuousness
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...bicyclists, whose jaws work almost as busily as their legs. This year riders gulped 1,000 roast chickens, 300 lbs. of chocolate, 21,000 quarts of mineral water, 100,000 prunes. Barred from the menu: white wine and fried food, which induce cramps. Press helicopters hovered overhead. From tortuous mountain roads, where spills are bloodiest, TV cameras vividly pictured the struggles of storm-lashed competitors. A bottled-gas firm hired a dozen Paris revue stars, staged free shows in a portable theater at each stopover. Monstrous advertising floats included a 65-ft. hair-cream tube and a 17-ft. housefly...
Kelley quickly regained the lead, but he could not shake the dogged Finn. Through the tortuous Newton hills, Detective Oksanen shadowed his man, hanging a half-stride behind Kelley's right shoulder, using him as a windbreak. Kelley tried to keep Oksanen from passing by skirting close to the crowds of spectators who lined the road, but at an intersection eight-tenths of a mile from the finish line, the road broadened momentarily and Oksanen broke into a sprint that got him by. When he crossed the line in 2 hrs. 23 min. 29 sec., Oksanen...
...recorded his numbed sensations and degrees of pain with cool scientific exactitude, and never used antivenin. He has had an entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple and effective and very widely understood"). He has also spent an entire year in tortuous bureaucratic negotiation to have a tribe restored to its ancestral village. He smokes incessantly, sleeps with his mosquito boots on, and has worn the same conical felt hat, begrimed with sweat and snake venom, since 1940. Peering out from its ragged brim with his satyrlike half-smile, the snake...
Starts Sunday: Elusive Robert Bresson's DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST will receive its American premiere. A tortuous film that explores a young priest's reactions to loneliness and hostility on his first parish assignment. Evenings...
...from certainties that are not really certain. If one atom bomb is dropped, there is no certainty that all will be dropped or that every last man will perish. If humanity is blackmailed into totalitarian slavery out of fear of the bomb, there is also no certainty that in tortuous, labyrinthine ways, man would not eventually recover his freedom...