Word: twists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bolles died with a curse on his lips, a tricornered curse: Mafia, Emprise, John Adamson. Mafia--not hard to understand. Seen the Godfather? But Arizona gives it a twist. This is the land of swimming pools and cacti, and the O.K. Corral was 80 years ago. But Phoenix has grown in population almost 1300 per cent since 1950, it's a new center for white collar crime--the new "Florida" for criminals who bilk the public in shady land deals...
...more twist of reasoning, Byker said if Expos offered something like the journalism course and some students didn't get in, then those students are bound to be more irritated than if they hadn't been offered it in the first place...
...concludes that young Charlie was more or less right. A man must kick against the System-play the rebel, if not the outlaw-in order to become a man. Listening to Charlie, Delderfield seems staggered himself and hastily pulls back from profundity to close out his novel with a twist as old as one of O. Henry's. Still, it works, just as almost everything by Delderfield works. Who else could write a bright and brassy bit of entertainment that doubles as an old pro's epitaph on his own genre...
Architects of the rubber settlement were Labor Secretary W.J. Usery Jr. and Federal Mediator James Scearce, who had to twist "a few arms on both sides," as an aide put it, to get the crucial pay agreement. The threeyear, 36% increase runs ahead of other recent major labor settlements, which have been in the 30% to 33% range. Washington, however, regards the hefty increase as unavoidable because the rubber workers have lagged behind other industrial employees in pay raises during the past three years. For instance, auto assembly-line workers, who are currently negotiating new contracts of their...
Lord Killanin's handling of the Taiwan controversy [July 19] clearly revealed that gentleman's ability to forge a mediocre twist to a Caesarean dictum; He came, he saw, he capitulated...