Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consideration and plunge the state into fiscal disarray merely by passing around petitions. Nor is there any easy way to prevent them. Because the right of referendum is guaranteed by the Constitution, a referendum cannot be mounted to eliminate it. The only way to change it is by the tortuous process of constitutional amendment...
...singers, especially the two sopranos, but in this performance Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Home are equal to the task. In the early scenes, Sutherland's voice has a rather thick, clotted quality that soon clears up; Home is superb throughout. For aficionados of bel canto and tortuous vocal ornamentations, this recording is a major event, owing in no small part to Bonynge's intelligent handling of the text and the London Symphony...
Fighting the Giants. As weaker operators began to fall out during tortuous negotiations, a consortium consisting of Armour & Co., Continental Oil, and Loeb, Rhoades & Co., and headed by former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, soon emerged as the leading contender. Anderson was a steady visitor to Spain, even won an audience with Franco. Then, last November, Continental Oil pulled out of the Anderson consortium, and all its hopes were wrecked. A new group, including Gulf Oil, W.R. Grace, Texaco, and Standard Oil of Calif., entered the race with a combined bid. I.M.C. was left to fight it out with the quartet...
...Diagnosing a case of varicose veins is easy enough: the swollen and tortuous blood vessels stand out in bold relief on the victim's legs. Deciding on treatment is something else, and the choice is most likely to depend on the doctor's nationality. In U.S. hospitals, the preferred approach is to "extinguish" the offending veins by stripping them out in tedious operations that take up to twelve hours and leave the footsore surgeon himself a candidate for varicose veins. In Europe, doctors reach for hypodermics, hoping to harden the veins and cure the trouble quickly with simple...
...last April, the beach smashers had to learn to become pinpoint artillerists. It was no easy task. The spin-stabilized 5-in. rocket is not nearly so accurate as a naval rifle shell. Moreover, no one knew if the squat, underpowered ships could safely negotiate Viet Nam's tortuous Mekong River Delta-a prime necessity if their rockets' five-mile strike range was to be applied effectively against inland Viet Cong installations. Slowly but steadily, the rocket men overcame the built-in limitations of their ships and in the process wrote a new manual on shore bombardment...