Word: twister
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...companies in fields as diverse as aerospace (Garrett Corp.), trucking (Mack) and banking (Arizona Bancorporation), recently jested in advertisements that "we've thought of calling ourselves Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporation." While Signal does, in fact, plan to take on a new name that will better reflect its conglomerate status, that tongue twister will never do-if only because the company would have to keep changing its letterheads. Last week, for instance, it might have become "Signalgarrettmacktruckarizonabancorporationallischalmers...
...that "the country is sick to death of this whining and whimpering from the Prime Minister." When Wilson claimed to have answered a question that he really had not, Tory Chairman Anthony Barber exclaimed: "That confirms the suspicion of the whole country that the right honorable gentleman is a twister." The Speaker asked Barber to withdraw the remark. Some of the harshest criticism was leveled at Wilson by the former head of the Bank of England, Lord Cromer. Unlike Britain's two previous devaluations in 1931 and 1949, he said, "this time devaluation was the outcome solely...
...fascinating thing about Charles O. Finley, 49, is the way he brings out the worst in other people. In the seven years that Millionaire Finley has owned the Kansas City Athletics, he has managed-accidentally or deliberately-to raise more dust than a prairie twister. Managers have violently disagreed with him, players have rebelled, fans have hanged him in effigy. Those incidents were nothing compared with the howler that hit last week when Finley's fellow American League owners voted to 1) allow him to move the Athletics to Oakland, Calif., next season, and 2) expand the league from...
...whooshed over Alaska and the Canadian Northwest, driving masses of refrigerated air down from the Arctic and over the East Coast. The jet stream's unusual northerly course also helped suck the tornado belt up from its more normal Kansas-Oklahoma-Missouri route, causing a disastrous twister in Chicago's suburbs. Meanwhile, the southern jet stream, after an exceptionally cold, wet run over California, dried out and warmed up so thoroughly as it crossed the Continental Divide that it left huge chunks of Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Florida parched in its wake. Meandering farther north than usual...
...eventually reach the local newspaper editor, a shopkeeper, a waitress, an "alienated" college professor and his wife Charlotte, who is one of those beautiful, charming, spontaneous nature girls so dear to the hearts of intellectual novelists. The sparse action is accompanied by heavy circular symbolism: the motorcycle wheels, the twister, Charlotte's abandoned whirling dance, bees circling around the half-wit in numbers that ought to discourage any rapist. In the end, the reader is left going around in circles...