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Word: twistings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill gave the investigation an unheard-of twist. McGill announced that an anonymous "wool hat" Georgian, a firm believer in "white supremacy," had deposited with him a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of Mallard's killers. Said the wool-hatter: "This is a white man's country and therefore the law is the white man's law. It is important that he live by it ... No decent white man, no real 'wool hat Georgian' will support murder and lynch violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Just Another Killing | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Symbol. By an ironic twist, the sergeant's song became the favorite of Pancho Villa's men, not of Carranza's army, where it was born. For years, a guitar-strumming mariachi had only to play Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Whom the Sergeant Adored | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...there is one point that might bother him a little. And this is the fact that the spiral had already begun to twist into a conservative period in 1946, according to several of his own standards for determining such things; so now it has either doubled back or jumped way up ahead, depending on how you want to look at it. And no matter how you look at it, to change the metaphor back again, pendulums don't change their minds...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

...should have liked to see Oliver Twist; and I bitterly resent it that pressure groups should have successfully committed a breach of the democratic process in depriving me and many millions of others of our right to see that film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Semitic Twist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Oliver Twist is done half as well as was Great Expectations, I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Anti-Semitic Twist? | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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