Word: twisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech in which he referred to the "elegant simplicity and pleasing appearance of the commodious and ornamental edifice." Despite his praise for the building, the President was by no means so pleased with its name. He complained that "Holworthy had two aspirates between the 'I' and the 'th' which twist and squeeze the organs not a little." Apparently, no one else had such extraordinary difficulties with the word; at least, no better name was suggested, and the issue was soon forgotten...
...eyes. When Eartha sang, it was in a smoky, reedlike quaver. Most of the time she was the fervid, grasping female as she trumpeted C'est Si Bon, Après Moi and The Heel. But at the end she often inserted a wistful and not very convincing twist-the manner of the little girl lost in the wicked world...
...theatrical sense, following history has its clear rewards even if it proves, in the final sense, a mixed blessing. In the fierce clash between Bryan and Darrow history supplies a more rousing scene than most dramatists could invent, and in Bryan's subsequent collapse a twist that few dramatists would dare to. And with the help of Peter Larkin's highly ingenious set, the play creates a graphic town picture of where once the embattled fundamentalist stood and started a ruckus heard 'round the world...
...closed down the Paris fashion market, one retailer said: "The American garment industry is now in a position to show whether it can make a silk dress or whether it will be a sow's ear." Designer McCardell made a silk dress with a special wartime twist-a long kitchen-dinner dress of tie silk, with apron to match, for women who were forced to be their own maids. When Harper's Bazaar asked her to make something in which women could do their housework and still look smart, Claire obliged with the "Popover," a wraparound, coverall sort...
...General Motors has the same type of system at its Dayton, Ohio Frigidaire plant. For example, an ex-punch-press operator who got tuberculosis of the spine checks for leaks in refrigerator units passing through a tank of water, a job that does not require him to stoop or twist...