Word: tracklessly
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...Navy as a chief boatswain, showed such promise that he was sent to the Naval Academy and commissioned an ensign. Studying logistics, ballistics, navigation and early naval aviation, he suddenly found himself in a world rapidly moving from "the wire to the wireless, the track to the trackless, the visible to the invisible, where more and more could be done with less and less...
Aluminium comfortably skims tariff barriers because it is a low-cost producer, benefiting from Canada's lower-wage labor, devalued dollar and abundance of cheap electric power. Harnessing the remote Saguenay River, Aluminium cut into the trackless wilds of northern Quebec to build the dams that now power the smelter at Arvida (a contraction of Arthur Vining Davis). For the still bigger Kitimat power project in British Columbia, it carved a ten-mile tunnel into a mountain, created a waterfall 16 times as high as Niagara Falls and built a smelter with an awesome annual capacity...
...outset of the vast trackless movie, when T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and a guide drink at an oasis, a rifle shot cuts down the guide. It is Sharif who has thus spoken; the oasis is his. Lawrence adroitly talks his way past this crisis and proceeds with Sharif as his new guide and eventual friend. For the remainder of four hours-through thick, thin and thaumaturgy-Sharif stays close to the side of the English Enigma. Women who have seen the picture say that they go away thinking about the fine performances of O'Toole, Alec...
When Barbra Streisand talks, she gets lost in the trackless deserts of her burgeoning vocabulary. "Creativity is like a part of perversion," she will begin, "like a thing that goes inward for emotion, not responsively, because intellect is bad for what I do." Such thoughts always bring her to a helpless "Know what I mean?" And no one ever does. But when she sings, everyone knows exactly what she means; even with a banal song, she can hush a room as if she really had something worth saying...
...settled down in the Red River Valley as a Western woman's torch song for her cowboy-errant. Similarly, a British ballad called The Unfortunate Rake, about a soldier dying of syphilis, went through several mutations before it traveled to Texas and became the national anthem of the trackless range, The Streets of Laredo...