Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing was old style. His stroke was a throwback to the basic Harry Vardon type of "inside-out" swing (most modern pros punch the ball more). He liked long, narrow fairways, for he specialized in consistently straight drives (average: 250 yards). The way he explains it: "Just a simple twist of the wrist, old fellow...
They have proved pretty conclusively that they are fine picture makers - with or without Coward. Without a flop to their discredit so far, the trio has Rank's fondest blessings. Cineguild's next job: Oliver Twist...
...obvious result from this short-sightedness is another upward twist in a price spiral already reaching dangerous levels. Most American firms enjoyed fat profits from their 1946 operations. Unions know this almost as well as management, and they would be foolish indeed if they did not take full advantage of it in setting their demands for the coming year. With bargaining power reduced by incontrovertible facts, new highs in labor's terms can be avoided only by the slim margin of union moderation, at a time when unionists are bearing the brunt of a greatly increased cost of living. Labor...
...society. Pritchett furnishes the wastelands of their minds with the unspoken impulses, the suppressed, half-formed resentments, suspicions and despairs that shape their personalities and behavior. Outwardly nothing much happens to these people. The reader who wants his excitement laid on with a trowel, characters forced toward some unexpected twist-ending by an inventive author, will find them unrewarding. As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, the excitement in these stories grows out of ordinary human tensions and becomes most intense when the explosion is an inner discovery, unspoken and unseen...
...often he pauses on a word or goes back to reread, whether he reads smoothly or in jerks. The clinic also runs the student through a barrage of speed, comprehension, vocabulary, intelligence and psychological tests, uncovers victims of emotional blocks (e.g., jealousy, insecurity) and "mixed dominance" (a brain twist that makes some people read...