Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning point came a fortnight ago when Stokes openly introduced the issue of race. Making the tortuous claim that Taft was subtly trying to capitalize on racist hatred by urging voters to ignore the candidates' color, Stokes declared: "The personal analysis of Seth Taft-and of many competent political analysts-is that Seth Taft may win the Nov. 7 election, but for only one reason. That reason is that his skin happens to be white...
...Ties. The two papers reached their carefully documented conclusions after months of following Philby's tortuous trail from his college days to the Kremlin...
...volumes and more than 2,000 pages-is almost enough to endow it with a religious aura. The work, says British Historian Isaiah Berlin, "has been blindly worshiped and blindly hated by millions who have not read a line of it, or have read without understanding its obscure and tortuous prose." Since 1917, more than 6,000,000 copies of it have been printed in the Soviet Union. Yet the Albanians, who have been Communists for two dec ades, managed to do without it until last year, when they published the first edition in their language...
...Short hours after tanks and troopers raced north from their victory on the west bank of the Jordan, an Israeli armored brigade was ready to lash out from a point just north of the kibbutz of Kfar Szold (see map) and grind up into the forbidding Syrian hills. So tortuous was the terrain that the lead battalion of 35 Sherman tanks was forced to snake up the cliffside in single file. Despite heavy Israeli air and artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab 130-and 122-mm. shells rained down on the slender column at the rate...
Along the way, the film turns into a tortuous tour of off-beat waterfront locales. There is a sadistic scene in a squash court, a shoot-out in a hall of mirrors, and a visit to a floating brothel full of identical-twin prostitutes. Long before the ending, the movie has been swallowed up in affected effects and ponderous expository scenes. Despite occasional sprightly echoes of his past repartee, and despite a large cast of competent character actors, Gunn seems of much smaller caliber than he was in the living room...