Word: askew
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...tossed them aside and continued on his own. All last week, even during intervals in the hectic Truman crisis, he returned time and again to the isolation of his small, green-tinted law office on Chicago's South La Salle Street. There, shirt-sleeved and with tie askew, he revised, updated, rephrased and polished. On the convention's last night Adlai Stevenson stood up before the Democratic delegates as their second-time standard bearer, accepted the nomination in a fighting speech studded with epigrams and clearly wrought phrases that brought applause from his audience 53 times...
...crowds cheered deliriously. It did not matter to them that Nasser was wildly askew with history and simple finance. The Suez Canal was dug with a loss, not of 120,000 lives, but of a few hundred, and Britain bought Egypt's shares in the canal only after the debt-ridden Egyptian government voluntarily offered them...
...shooting lay the basis for a deadly serious war between the services. In the years since World War II, the growing potential of the atom has brought new importance to air power because air power is the prime delivery means for A-bombs and H-bombs. The atom knocked askew the comfortable old U.S. military idea of balanced forces. President Eisenhower wrenched the Air Force, Navy, Army roles and missions even more sharply by ruling that the atomic bomb should be the primary weapon both for retaliation in case of a big war, or for retaliation (on enemy supply bases...
...lips cold. As her mother, stepfather and some neighborhood young people do everything they can to thaw Bridget out and win her over, it becomes plain that she not only resents her mother. Her relations with her father are also twisted, her whole life is lonely and askew, her disdains are defensive, her withdrawals constitute flight. What she needs, of course, is love, and there is no lack of it at curtainfall...
...Halos Askew. Against this backdrop, Brad and Val drift towards a hoked-up farewell. Brad volunteers for a suicide outfit with a D-day dawn mission, only to find that his last-minute C.O. is Val's other lover, John. As they make the beach yards apart, both men nearly buy it-but live to come out of it with a reluctant mutual respect. Back in England a few days later, with sacrificial halos slightly askew. Brad and Val call it quits: "She said, 'Turn your head away.' He knew she was leaving...