Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still more by a mood of caution against commitment of American blood, by a desire for a realistic drawing of lines that define just where we stand. Deepest of all is the American desire to work out some way to peace and detente with the Communists, however long or tortuous that road might...
...used in a new way. The dialogue more than ever belongs to the characters, not to Bergman. Bergman has been released from the grip of his own questioning mind, and so he has released his characters, and so they release us. Neither he nor they are forced through tortuous mind-plucking, cerebral contortions. We should only be so lucky. Eat a pizza after seeing Shame, or walk around, or get mugged, go to the airport and watch planes take off. But don't come right home to Cambridge. You'll only be jumping back into the same mindswamp Ingmar Bergman...
...unlikely man for the part of Robespierre since he once ordered his closest friend killed because this friend had collaborated with the Germans during the war ten years ago. Anouilh rails at this bit of petty bureaucratic brutality be linking this act of Bitos' to the tortuous reasoning by which Robespierre condemned some of his closest associates to the guillotine...
Four months, one sit-in, and countless committee meetings have passed since then. And now the tortuous machinery of Harvard's academic bureaucracy has digested this fall's proposals and is finally ready to determine ROTC's fate...
...made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates in Foggy Bottom. Financially, at least. Last week a report on the contributors to his 1969 primary campaign showed that a slew of senior State Department officials have chipped in to re-elect Rooney. Among them: Angier Biddle Duke, Ambassador to Denmark...