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Usage for tortuous


Life on "The Rock" was tortuous for the gangster. His fellow felons didn't like him. He got into fistfights. A fellow prisoner stabbed him with a pair of barber shears. Part of the dislike came from Capone's refusal to participate in the 1937 sit-down ...

Combining the art of mountain biking with the insanity of tortuous trail runs. The answer is easy: masochistic tendencies for extended athletic pain and effort. Or is it effort and pain? We traveled the net to New Zealand finding the answer by asking ...

Regardless of the reason, there's way too much budget-bill padding going on. The Ohio House passed its version of the next budget -- all 4000-plus pages of it -- on May 5. The Senate is starting on the same tortuous journey.

As Barcelona's ascent to unchartered peaks of football excellence proved as irresistible and inevitable as many predicted, at times the circumstances of Van der Sar's departure must have felt more tortuous than any of his previous 600 senior ...


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