Word: twistings
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...feel like Oliver Twist at the orphanage for even asking. And whenever I do, I brace myself for Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney to leap out of the lavatory and sing, "More?! Catch him! Snatch him! Hold him! Scold him! Pounce him! Trounce him! Pick him up and bounce...
...year-old was taken into custody overnight by the Hampshire Constabulary in southern England. His arrest is the latest twist in the mysterious reappearance of a man who was presumed drowned in the North Sea in March, 2002. A frenzied search for Darwin - which included a helicopter and nearly a dozen ships and canvassed 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km) of sea - yielded no traces of the former prison official. When his shattered red kayak washed ashore without its captain, it seemed, surely, to spell Darwin's untimely demise...
...considered “good” because it points to something deeper, in society or in ourselves, beyond the realm of ordinary human experience. Tolstoy’s genius was to take something as banal as Anna’s infidelity and give it a darker psychological twist...
...event will also feature contributions from Haute, a student-run fashion group, who will present an Ancient Greek-themed fashion show on the fourth floor of the museum. The fashion show will provide students with the opportunity to experience Greek culture in the flesh, but with a modern twist. The student models will be wearing costumes from the play “Metamorphoses,” which was put on at the Loeb Theatre earlier this year.Abigail M. Baird ‘08, the producer of the fashion show, feels that the collaboration will be fruitful. “This...
...twist in the game, however, was that the subject words were taboo subjects themselves, in the context of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...