Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that is woman. We men are silly. When we whip our mistresses or have our hounds taunt them, we think it is we who enjoy this. Not so. It is the wily women (and I have no doubts that Miss Trepan is such a one) who with every shriek twist we men around their little fingers. What vain creatures! How silly we men! How silly women! How silly...
Angry Gods. In a twist on the temperamental tenors and sopranos who war offstage and woo onstage, the Berrys in private life seem like a hand-holding coosome. Though the profession is land-mined with problems for married singers, they have made a go of it because their careers progressed at the same pace. Today, they shuttle between Vienna, New York and their home in Lucerne (both are Swiss citizens) with their eight-year-old son Wolfgang, Christa's mother, a cook, a secretary and 27 pieces of luggage. They pick and choose their roles so that they...
...whom distinguished themselves over a decade ago as supporters of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, feel that the agreement will open up vast opportunities for the Russians to spy in the United States. This, of course, is a rather withered cry, but they have given it a new moral twist. They invoke America's "dying youth" in Vietnam and intone righteously that this is no time to cuddle up to a nation giving aid and comfort to Ho Chi Minh...
...Twist for an Old Theory...
Airless Orb. Undaunted, a University of Miami scientist with credentials in the field of cosmogony-has resurrected one of the old theories and given it a new twist that he feels will enable it to pass the mathematical and dynamical tests its predecessors failed. Physicist S. (for Siegfried) Fred Singer suggests that the moon first evolved as a minor planet, independent of the earth and following its own orbit around the sun. About four billion years ago, he believes, its path carried it on a near-collision course with the earth, which at that time was an atmosphereless orb revolving...