Word: twists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working crudely, the burglars gave Matisse's Woman at the Fountain a hole in the head, tore a new twist in a cubist Picasso, Lady with a Hat, made off with four-fifths of a Miro, and, in seizing Leger's Composition with Three Sisters, left behind a patch of the girls' background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy...
...Will Die. This twist of the tiger's tail was one too many. With a savagery that stunned the Tunisians, the French struck back. Jet airplanes thundered down on roadblocks, blasting them with rockets. Tunisian troops, armed with rifles and light machine guns, were flattened under barrages from 105-mm. howitzers. Evidently disregarding orders from Paris-a tradition with the French army-tanks and armored cars roared 15 miles outside the Bizerte base. Tanks sprayed bullets into the town of Menzel-Bourguiba, nine miles from Bizerte, where the French maintain an arsenal and shipyard. Soon there were 27 Tunisian...
Washington was talking tough. Twice last week Dean Rusk's State Department answered back to recent Soviet efforts to twist the means of international diplomacy for Russia's own ends...
...m.p.h., long-range interceptors comparable to U.S. F-104 and F106 fighters. But one of the Russian planes had a new twist unlike anything in the U.S. hardware field: a liquid-fuel rocket booster under its tail, designed to give it tremendous, straight-up climbing power and speed in a pinch...
...Royal Birkdale golf course, hard by Liverpool Bay, is a 6,844-yd. string of narrow fairways that twist like green ribbons over the landscape. Under good conditions it is not much of a challenge. Last week, as 108 qualifiers vied for the 101st British Open, conditions were nightmarish. Fierce winds and rain lashed the course for the first two days, washed out play on the third. Workmen bailed water from the course with buckets, blotted the sopping greens with blankets...