Word: twister
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...weak in the United Nations to let people hear whatever they want to hear?" Until oppositionists could return home "unscathed and unhampered," she urged that UNO aid those who refused to go back. The packed galleries gave her a rousing ovation. Vishinsky retorted with a typical Soviet twister: "No democracy can permit tyranny to do what it wants. . . . We refuse to accept such tolerance." The UNO General Assembly backed Mrs. Roosevelt...
Last week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick...
This time, the twister set a collision course for the task group commanded by Rear Admiral Joseph ("Jocko") Clark, and the Cherokee Admiral got it head on. Proud ships like the Hornet and Bennington (27,000-ton carriers) had as much as 25 feet of their steel-braced flight decks peeled back by the waves; parked planes were picked up and tossed aside in a jumble of wreckage; exposed gun mounts, built out from the ships' sides, were crushed...
...also expounds for pages on three of the most treacherous openings ever devised: the Edinburgh Single, a deciding factor in more match and tournament games than any other known opening; the Octopus, whose "manifold tentacles . . . have ensnared many of the game's ablest critics"; and Oliver's Twister, a baffler ever since Manhattan's Oliver J. Mauro laid down its basic "theme" some years...
...weakness is in his nerves. He runs away from himself. As a boy he wanted to relinquish his title and go to the U. S. as an immigrant. He uses his frail health as a sort of storm cellar, into which he retires whenever he sees a political twister coming. Offered the Premiership after the bloody February 26 Revolt of 1936, he retired to his "sick" bed and did not get up until someone else had been appointed. When he finally did become Premier, he lost eight pounds in his first week in office. A prolonged "cold" seized him when...