Word: screws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Planning. For seven months the government had tried to screw up its courage to say those last seven words. In September, St. Laurent told the United Nations that the free democracies hoped they would not have to form a security union within...
Dickson, less rugged than most pitchers, relies on a rich assortment of what baseballers call "stuff." He throws six types of pitches (fast ball, curve, slider, knuckler, sinker and screw ball). Says he: "Sometimes early in a game, some of them aren't working so well. So I drop the bad ones and stick with the ones that will do me the most good." All of them were working against the Yankees that...
...hard luck which battered at the skiers hopes all weekend, Laurie Griffin's front throw on his cable broke at the top of the downhill course. Sans hammer or screw-driver, Griffin pushed the throw into the ski, tightened his bindings in the hope that tension would keep the harness intact, and copped 19th place. His time of 79 seconds was eight behind the winner...
When a correspondents' committee asked who was cracking down on whom and why, Baker said: "Every time [you] have pressed for a clarification of policy, the policy has grown tighter." To correspondents, the latest turn of the screw seemed to mean that the squeeze was on correspondents to write only good news about MacArthur...
...pathetic eagerness for a respectable job that makes him vulnerable to his wife's malice. Bill is dragged out of a bar, sobered up, and hired as Pineboro's only salaried fireman. Some day he plans to be fire chief. The turn of the screw is that his brother-in-law (who has seduced Bill's good-looking wife) merely wanted to ruin Bill once & for all. With stupefying smalltown cunning, he calculated that some day Bill would be drunk when there was a fire...