Word: twists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have told the whole story, but their looks gave them away: John Anderson tight-lipped and near defiant, Edward Kennedy relaxed and bemused. While 200 reporters and spectators crowded around them last week in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the pair of presidential hopefuls gave a new twist to the race by singing each other's praises. Said Anderson of Kennedy: "I think he is one of the distinguished leaders of the Democratic Party." Said Kennedy of Anderson: "I admire the efforts he has made and continues to make to reach a responsible solution to the concerns of millions...
...four-inch wide apparatus, and there seemed no reason why she could not lift her score again. But her knee bent ever so slightly on a difficult 360° rotation, and she lost her balance for a millisecond after a patented front flip with a half twist. Even so, she seemed tinged with gold...
...three young and talented men by the names of Jim Abraham, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker decided that there was a pressing need to merge these two schools of film. They chose as their object every diaster movie ever made and the 1957 thriller, "Zero Hour." The twist to all this is that they wanted to make the whole garbled mess funny...
...knobby outer structure of the arch can be felt by touching the back). In the normal, healthy back, the facets of one vertebra line up precisely with those of adjoining vertebrae, creating smoothly functioning facet joints. But sometimes a facet dislocates; all it may take is a sudden twist or bend. The bone may begin to press on the tiny nerves that run to it from the spinal cord. Like a herniated disc, facet-joint syndrome can be accompanied by severe pain...
FLABBY, OTIOSE, AND even worse, whimsical: labels that might be affixed to an economy increasingly mired in lassitude, beset by the twin problems of inflation and recession. As if those dual difficulties were not sufficient to twist minds from Washington to Cambridge, the latest productivity figures show an alarmingly small rise--indicating that the most jaded and chronic criticisms may in fact be borne out. It's crisis time, and the crescent encompasses a region less foreign than the Near East...