Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...odyssey of one Harvard student from a Los Angeles barrio to Cambridge and back again possibly took its final twist this summer after his conviction for a string of armed robberies...
...Rose saga took a strange twist when baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti died from a heart attack eight days later. Giamatti was set to make his mark on the game before Rose's situation became a top priority for the former president of Yale...
...odyssey of one Harvard student from a Los Angeles barrio to Cambridge and back again possibly took its final twist this summer after his conviction for a string of armed robberies...
Hitler had hoped to attack the Low Countries in the fall of 1939, as soon as possible after the conquest of Poland, but the plan was delayed first by objections from the German generals, then by bad weather, then by a bizarre twist of fortune. A Luftwaffe major who carried a set of the invasion plans in his briefcase was sitting in an officers club in Munster and bemoaning the long train trip to a planning conference in Cologne the next day; another major, who was getting too old for active duty, offered to fly him there so that...
Lately, however, he's been coasting on his early reputation and his one book, which, in a clever twist of irony by Bernays, woos a feminist following with its suggestion that females' development is superior to males' at several early stages...