Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With some pain, the Duke remembered a childhood nurse who took him downstairs at teatime to see his parents, the future George V and Mary. "Before taking me into the drawing room, this dreadful 'Nanny' would pinch and twist my arm-why, no one knew, unless it was to demonstrate, according to some perverse reasoning, that her power over me was greater than theirs." Eventually the cruel Nanny was caught at it, and fired...
...Corp. has offered retail clerks special incentives to push its radios. Under Philco's latest "Sell'n Win" plan, the clerks accumulated points for each Philco set sold and high scorers got "spiffs" (prizes) ranging from fountain pens to electric washing machines. Recently Philco tried a new twist: salesmen were to get chances in a drawing for cash spiffs. When the U.S. Post Office objected that Philco was conducting a lottery, Philco canceled the drawing...
...Humanité's solution: "A law for the material and moral protection of our child's press." To twist home the point, the editors ran a two-column cut of a handsome, curly-haired boy doing his homework under lamplight. No comics were in sight, but the caption read: "Is this studious little boy to be the prey of Yankee journalism, the murderer of youthful minds...
...suspended? Two weeks ago Master Tara Singh, leader of the Sikhs, estimated that the killing would last three more months and that 500,000 Hindus and Sikhs and as many Moslems would die of murder, epidemic and starvation. In another statement, Tara Singh gave this grisly forecast an algebraic twist. He pointed out that fleeing Sikhs (who are richer) had left six million acres of land, while an equal number of fleeing Moslems had left only two million acres. His proposal: drive enough Moslems from their farms to balance the property exchange...
...picture to as little as 19 days (the industry average is 45 to 70 days); he has been known to leave as little as 200 feet on the cutting-room floor in editing a film. This has been done by cutting scripts to the last adjective, working out every twist of plot before shooting starts. (Many a director still makes up the plot as he goes along.) Schary also cuts corners on scenery by writing in night scenes, because "you can't see as far at night and you don't have to build as much...