Word: twister
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Tornadoes are notoriously unpredictable. It is impossible to tell, just by looking, whether a tall black cloud will merely drop a shower, or whether it will lash out with a twister. Last week the U.S. Weather Bureau was on the trail of a promising way of telling in advance which of the tall black clouds are apt to be pregnant with tornadoes...
Texas Oilman Clint W. Murchison, who likes nothing better than a big, complicated deal, last week stepped into a real brain-twister. In the process, the big wheeler-dealer hoped to get his first listing on the New York Stock Exchange...
...King at her Hollywood home. "This," he began, "is Mitch Miller." "And this," the unbelieving singer answered, "is Snow White. And all the dwarfs are here, too." Identities were finally established, and Peggy King signed with Miller. Last week Columbia issued as her first effort The Hottentot, a tongue twister silly and bouncy enough to become a hit. Sample
...Administration, McCarthy charged, has not done enough to fight Communism. He wanted to know why John Paton Davies Jr., who tried "to put Communists and espionage agents in key spots in the Central Intelligence Agency," is still a "high official" of the State Department. This was a standard McCarthy twister. Davies, now counselor of the U.S. embassy in Lima, Peru, once got into trouble with the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee because of testimony that he had recommended Communists...
...southern tip of the squall line, Cleveland shuddered under hailstones big as golf balls as a twister rode in from the airport. The twister dragged its tail across the suburbs, skipped to the industrial "Flats," and wrecked a couple of downtown commercial buildings before it disappeared over the lake. In 29 minutes it curved over 12½ miles, opened a half-mile-wide swath, killed eight, injured 300, wrecked 1,871 houses and did some $20 million of damage...