Word: zigzagging
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...determination not to pressure legislators has resulted in a lack of clear communication with Congress even on routine matters. Out of what some of his own men regard as an excessive desire to avoid party and factional conflict, the President frequently seems to end up practicing the politics of zigzag...
...depleted force did not hesitate. It rumbled on toward Kallah, which was heavily defended by tanks and Russian SU-100 tank destroyers, machine guns, mortars and bazookas. The only access was through a zigzag of mined concrete traps, and the Israeli tanks, now commanded by Lieut. Naty, could only crawl a few yards forward before having to back up, wheel sideways and inch forward at a fresh angle. They provided tempting targets for the furiously firing Syrians. A shell caromed off Naty's tank turret, silencing his radio. He raced to another tank and jockeyed it into the spearhead...
...Niarchos, 58, with 14-month-old Baby Elena, sailed aboard Stav's 190-ft. schooner Creole. Since divorce ended their 15-month marriage in March, the jet set's odd couple has toured Europe and Africa together, may be pushing their luck on the Creole-where their zigzag alliance got going in the first place...
Last week, as the Tour set out from Marseille for the climb up 6,273-ft. Mont Ventoux, Tom Simpson, 29, who in 1965 became the first Briton to win bike racing's world championship, was in the lead pack. Nearing the summit, Simpson began to zigzag, crashed into a rock pile and collapsed. Doctors rushed him to a hospital in a helicopter-but Simpson was dead. In his jersey pocket, police found two partly empty pharmaceutical vials-one labeled with the trade name for a brand of British "bennies"-and Tour promoters found themselves with the makings...
Died. Samuel Briskman, 70, a onetime Manhattan textile merchant who in 1931, while tinkering with two bread knives, devised a saw-toothed scissors that kept fabrics from unraveling by cutting a zigzag line, thereby earning himself a fortune in the manufacture of what became known as pinking shears; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach...