Word: twisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gentler Sex. In Oshawa, Ont, 27-year-old Cyril Arsenault was sentenced to three months in jail for assault after Nurse Ella Chalmers testified: "He put a headlock on me, and I forced my fingers between his teeth to twist his jaw around. I punched him on the nose and made it bleed. I let him up twice because I won't hit even a man when he's down...
...wage theories of big-league baseball players have always been as uncomplicated as the appetite of Oliver Twist. What they want is more. What they will get, announced Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick last week, is exactly that. For the privilege of broadcasting the next five years All-Star and World Series games on radio and television, NBC has promised to pay a whopping $16,250,000. And, since 60% of the profits is already earmarked for the nine-year-old Annuity and Insurance Plan, retirement benefits for retired baseballers may soon jump to $300, perhaps as high...
...remaining six years of his life he eked out an existence as a postmaster and by the sale of his lavish possessions (including his collection of $700 nightshirts). The story gets its special twist from the fact that Baby Doe remained faithful to him to the end. For 36 years after his death she lived on Tabor's last silver property in Leadville, rarely left the place and was found frozen to death there in a dilapidated shack...
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Doris Day; Columbia). More about the mystery of life, but with a fatalistic twist and a helpful touch of peasant philosophy. The answer to all queries: "The future's not ours...
Caught in a political vise, the Administration tried desperately to twist loose. From Walter Reed Hospital came word that President Eisenhower was willing to accept a compromise $500 million increase for the Air Force. As for foreign aid, Republican leaders could only hope that the Senate would heed its own Foreign Relations Committee and slash Administration requests by no more than $400 million this week...