Word: twisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next June 30), Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson has got the President's permission to cast a hard eye over next year's foreign-aid budget and audit the Pentagon's spending for overseas forces and bases. Last month Anderson gave U.S. policy a new dollar-saving twist: the U.S. announced that, with few exceptions, dollars lent in the future to underdeveloped nations by the Development Loan Fund must be spent in the U.S. (TIME...
...state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing at Stanford) has produced a tale of a prison riot that is at once a violent melodrama, a psychological quiz and a political morality play...
...Khrushchev to come visit him in Paris. To his Augusta press conference, Eisenhower sighed: "I was thinking we could do this by the end of the year . . . That still remains my position." In other words, Ike wished that De Gaulle would change his mind, but was not going to twist his arm. Advised one senior U.S. official: "Relax. Neither a Western pre-summit nor an East-West summit is going to be held very soon unless De Gaulle changes his mind...
...turns on him and snarls: "I love you. I hope you rot for spoiling love for me with other men. You did a terrible thing to me. You opened my eyes and heart and never touched me.'' So he touches her. There, by golly, is the twist he needs. The young girl in his play should be the aggressor...
...experiment actively seek adolescents in the Boston area and persuade them to come for an interview. "The first time one comes, whether or not he is three hours late, we pay him immediately in cash for coming." The payment of the subjects gives the experiment its unique twist. Street Corner Research does not try directly to reform juvenile delinquents, but treats the adolescents as employees and not as hoodlums...