Word: twist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Political Alleys. During most of its next-to-last week, the 80th Congress plodded along in the heat at dogtrot pace, breaking into sprints only when it came to political alleys. The Republican majority was still out to twist the President's tail (TIME, July 14), and Harry Truman's veto of the revived tax-cut bill did not cool any tempers. Senate Republicans brought up a measure to investigate Attorney General Tom Clark's handling of a matter close to Harry Truman's home voting booth. The author of the resolution, Missouri's Senator...
Against a background of pythons, armadilloes, vampire-bats, and other interesting fauna, the protagonists of "Jungle Virgin" give a new, exciting, neolithic twist to the love-triangle, the title character keeping her dubious claim largely because the outside corner, a real cad, confines himself to the oldfashioned bear hug. Tita, an uncommonly puny hero, though ferocious enough when need be, finally finds the villain making advances in a tree, after having kidnapped a baby elephant. He makes a brilliant tackle, and all ends happily when the villain falls into the paws of a conveniently waiting leopard. As far as anyone...
Said one top G.O.P. congressional leader, pulling a twist of metaphor from his pocket and biting off a big chaw: "The President has been having a great time twisting our tails, and now by God we're going to do some twisting on his. Let's see him take it a while and see how he likes it. We've got some pretty good ones cranked up and we're going to belt him with them before the session is over...
Last week Bangkok police ambushed five armed robbers and stripped them of their lethal weapons: two revolvers, one automatic pistol, five long, double-edged knives, three bundles of rope and a dozen lemons. The last item represents a new twist in Bangkok banditry. Armed robbers use the lemons to gag wealthy victims in daylight housebreaks...
...armchair lecturegoer with a simple twist of the wrist can hear anything from Homer's Odyssey to an explanation of the weather by lecturers drawn from the staffs of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University Lowell Institute, M.I.T. Northeastern, and Tufts...