Word: twisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cardboard Kibitzer. Atlanta's Bridge-Masters put on sale a cardboard bidding wheel that gives the correct bid for any situation with a twist of a disk. Price...
...Twist of the Knife. Love mislaid on the altar of totalitarian politics is also the theme of An Epitaph for Love. Like the Green thriller, it is full of brooding atmospherics and clever character analysis. The hero, Harry Lucas, is a footloose English writer in Florence, inwardly reliving the wartime days when he worked with the Italian partisans. His most haunting memory : a tug of war between love and loyalty, in which he turned in his girl Nina to the partisan chief Giulio because she was a German agent. The wound is reopened and history re-enacted when Florence...
There was a malicious twist in the spin because-despite Knowland's warm words for the record-Dick Nixon and Bill Knowland have long been rivals, and there is a serious conflict between them. The two Californians raced to the pinnacles by quite different routes. Nixon is the son of a grocer in Whittier, in Southern California. A young lawyer-war veteran, he had little political background when a friend submitted his name to a citizens' committee which was seeking a candidate for Congress in California's Twelfth District in 1946. Knowland, son of a wealthy...
...reports Dr. Mortensen in GP, published by the American Academy of General Practice, there was a reverse twist in the findings on cancer. Seven proved malignancies were detected, but none of these was in any of the eight persons who announced that they thought they had cancer. Thus the checkup helped both those who were mistakenly confident and those with groundless fears...
...this way wished they know that college officials, that group in education most prone to compromise academic freedom in the past, will stand behind them. Our universities have a responsibility to the public and themselves to expel teachers who have broken the law, or whose totalitarian beliefs so twist their teaching and research to render them unfit for their profession. But they have an equal responsibility to make sure the implication of unfitness that springs from use of the Fifth Amendment, membership in subversive groups, or any other indirect evidence is backed up by fact before any teacher is disciplined...