Word: twistingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprisingly, chief of investigations for the Board of Education, Maribeth Vander Weele, described the girl as "a very shy child, very isolated." The girl does not suffer from any serious physical or mental disabilities (although, in an ironic twist, officials reported that she does need glasses). And she seems not to have been the victim of physical abuse. The investigators reported that her home was clean and the girl looked well fed and clothed...
...difficult to tell, and Hatfield keeps delivering the line differently to keep her audience on its toes. Eventually, she starts to slip in the occasional "I" to replace "you" almost guiltily. Hatfield is serving up her usual heaping serving of deeply intimate lyrics but with a creative twist that actually works...
Hooters didn't try to claim that femininity was essential to serving food; rather, that scantily clad waitresses are integral to its marketing. As spokesman Mike McNeil put it, "Our business is female sex appeal, and in order to have that, you've got to be a female." To twist an old saying, Hooters sells the jiggle, not the steak...
Instead, there was a repeat of last week against Lehigh, when Harvard allowed four fourth quarter touchdowns and almost lost a 35-6 cushion. This time, though, there was a twist. Harvard lost. The Bison scored 10 more points in the third quarter without a peep out of Harvard, and it was over...
Tonight, if last year's numbers repeat themselves, approximately 3,200 people will attend services on Harvard's campus. The first twist that college adds to Yom Kippur is that in college, there is no separation between individuals' public and private lives. In the real world--that is, any situation in which the people with whom we live and those with whom we work are not the same--those with whom we live generally lead the same lifestyle that we do, while the people we work with...