Word: twigging
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...Bending Twig. John Foster grew up under the hand of old-fashioned authority. He got caned and had his ears cuffed for throwing spitballs in school. Father, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Watertown, N.Y., was benevolently stern. Mother was Edith Foster, a woman of energy and propriety who once became so appalled at the bad manners of the students of Auburn (N.Y.) Theological Seminary that she wrote a manual on proper decorum, covering such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called...
...Foster graduated from high school, Diplomat Foster sent his grandson to Switzerland for six months to study French. In 1904-the year when Pastor Dulles gave up his church to take the chair of Apologetics at the Auburn Theological Seminary-John Foster began his college career in Princeton. The twig was not yet fully bent, but grandfather was bending...
Luther himself was only too conscious of his excesses, and once, when asked why he was so violent, composed a salient epigram on his entire life. "A twig," he said, "can be cut with a bread knife, but an oak calls...
With that information, any good guesser who had read a couple of Robert Wilder's previous bestsellers (Flamingo Road, Written on the Wind, Bright Feather) might almost twig to the whole story...
...announced that he was organizing a Committee for the Improvement of the Denver Public Schools. Its purpose: war against general education, a return to more concentrated teaching of the traditional basic subjects, which he and his group are convinced that Denver's schools neglect, no matter what else twig-bending Superintendent Oberholtzer and his teachers may achieve...