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Word: twists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a way that it is well suited for the Crimson's strength, depth. There are four divisions, two varsity level, a JV and a freshman division. Each of the five competitors, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Coast Guard and Brown, places a two man crew in each division, with the twist being that the two alternate as skipper every other race...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Sailors Sweep Wood Trophy, Snag Seconds at Yale, Tufts | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...with a $1,000,000 settlement. And if you still need convincing -- though perhaps this isn't playing fair -- just take a look at the guy. Notice the runty size, the duck waddle of a walk, the well-tinted hairdo sculpted to his face, the elfish upward twist of the eyebrows. It's as if this Battle had got its sexes mixed up. If this is the figurehead of sexism, the tough-skinned Tarzan of the hour, well then, things have changed...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: The Sugar Daddy Won't Last All Day | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

...sign of apology. In Jordan and three other Arab countries, to flick the right thumbnail against the front teeth means the gesturer has no money or only a little. Bedouins touch their noses three times to show friendship. In Libya, it is customary for men to twist the tips of their forefingers into their cheeks when speaking to beautiful women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Talking with Hands | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Ringwraiths and Barrow-wights, hordes of Ores, who are Sauron's shock troops, and much cloak-and-daggering. When Frodo triumphs, finally, and destroys the ring, it is only with the perverse collaboration of Gollum, a pitiably evil creature with froglike feet who sounds a bit like Oliver Twist's Fagin and is one of the memorable minor characters in English literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eucatastrophe | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...Jews. We have the Moslems. Now we're going to fight El Al for the Christian trade." So says Aly Ghandour, managing director of the five-plane Royal Jordanian Airlines. With a new twist on an ancient feud, the Amman-based, government-owned line is challenging its larger Israeli counterpart for what Ghandour calls "the Bible traffic"-Westerners traveling in tour groups to Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Which Way to Jerusalem? | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

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