Word: runaround
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...London, efforts to get accreditation with the British Expeditionary Force to Egypt met with such bureaucratic bungling that most newsmen felt sure they were getting a deliberate runaround. When they applied at the Ministry of Defense, they were told to apply in Cyprus. When they arrived in Cyprus, they were told to apply in London. Soon more than 100 newsmen were on Cyprus badgering the army. But at week's end only 20-including three Americans-were chosen to go to the invasion front. From Paris with French accreditation came a planeload of journalists including 32-year-old brunette...
...complied except Admiral Wallin, who, in effect, told Anderson and Thomas to content themselves with broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Wash...
...science, which has never been self-sufficient. It is now almost impossible to hold international scientific conferences in the U.S., and nearly as difficult to hire foreign scientists to teach at U.S. universities. Even those who would probably get visas hate to take the risk of getting a consular runaround...
...gush. The stereotyped roles of dogmatic admiral, bright young officer, and old-timer crew chief have been played hundreds of times before with the same mediocrity. Unfortunately, the plot is just as mechanical as the casting: Star Glenn Ford gets a clever idea, the admirals give him the runaround, and then he makes a pass at the base chief's secretary. At length he succeeds in blowing up his own petty officer with a "Loon" while the band plays "For Those in Peril on the Sea." This maneuvering slows "Guided Missile" down to a dead walk near...
...weeks after the prince was born (TIME, Nov. 22), London editors realized that they were getting a royal runaround. They guessed that the baby was being given daily airings in the palace grounds. So photographers reconnoitered the streets around "Buck House," looking for a high point from which to shoot over the iron fence and bushes into the grounds. Along Grosvenor Place, which overlooks the grounds, they ran into a snag: leases on the houses there, owned by the Duke of Westminster, prohibit tenants from creating any nuisance for their royal neighbors, so tenants were timid about cameramen...