Word: twist
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...playing like a television soap opera, with each day seeming to bring a new twist, a fresh revelation. The drama starring National Security Adviser Richard Allen is dragging into its fourth week, and the fact that it lasted so long without fading away was becoming its most important feature. Nothing has been proved. Nothing has been disproved. But a whiff of impropriety hangs in the air. That troublesome scent was enough to force Allen out, at least temporarily: on Sunday Allen announced he was taking an "administrative leave" from his job, effective immediately, for the duration of the Justice Department...
...overwhelmed) by the intelligence of its morality. And it is the presence of this latter quality that finally distinguishes it. It is not a blanket condemnation of investigative reporting. It simply says that unspeakable people can use the conventions of unnamed sources and unattributed quotes for ulterior motives, can twist them to make the journalist who thinks he is serving the public good actually serve private (or governmental) ends that are no good. Perhaps most important of all, the picture reminds us that many public actions are motivated by innocent private needs that may only look suspicious, which people...
...analyze--they are one of the top squads in the East. When Rogan is not clicking with Grieve on offense, he is handing off to Rick Diana, the classiest runner in the Ivies since Ed Marinaro. Despite defense designed to stop him, the fleet-footed Diana has managed to twist and turn for more than five yards a crack, often breaking long runs. If he gets past the initial line of opposition and squirts through to the secondary, watch out. He is devastating in the open field, and his clutch runs last year gave the Elis good position and allowed...
...Mickey Finn ploy? Yes, but the visitor had fallen victim to a new and dangerous twist. In the past two years, New York hustlers have drugged scores of affluent-looking men (and a few women) not with the usual chloral hydrate-a sedative that simply makes a person drunk more quickly-but with scopolamine. This nervous-system depressant is normally used as a preoperative drug. It is also an ingredient in some prescription eye drops...
...marathon and never arrived home for an evening meal. Dinner itself became a lean affair of crudités and boiled fish. Executives could be seen pumping iron like buttoned-down Schwarzeneggers. For a while it seemed to be a fad, one more instantaneous American fixation like the twist or the Hula-Hoop. The U.S., after all, had become the country of spectator sports, hadn't it? Walking was all but unAmerican. Long-distance running was for Europeans. "It'll never last," said the wise guys over the second martini...