Word: zigzags
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...about ten miles north of Pengpu. Next morning in a curious military vehicle-an old rail coach converted by iron plates into an "armored car"-we clanked across the quarter-mile steel bridge spanning the Huai. The river's northern shore was buttressed at the bridgehead with zigzag trenches and barricades of sharp wooden stakes. It had been cleared of all sampans lest the Communists seize them for a crossing...
Travelling by jeep, the five will zigzag between the Phillips Brooks House parlor the Nursery School on Kirkland st., and key points in the residential area, distributing candy and presents and listening sympathetically to requests for jet-fighters...
...eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, a tornado cut a zigzag path through heavily settled farm country and a dozen towns, killed five people, did $1,000,000 worth of damage...
Resembling an oversize Foxy Grandpa, Griffis lives in an oversize, 14-room apartment on Manhattan's elegant Sutton Place. Five bathrooms are done in various pastels-one in baby blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...
...Arctic. With the gradual recession of the ice, the Charles became a maze of small lakes and streams that were soon afterwards consolidated into one more or less continuous river which cut a new route winding northward in and around obstructions caused by glacial deposits. Today, it pursues a zigzag path from Hopkin to past Cambridge and into Boston Bay, hitting twenty-eight towns and cities along its whole course...