Word: twistingly
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...hard, slick ice of many Canadian cities the curlers use irons, but in Winnipeg, as in Edinburgh and other conservative places they use 35-lb. stones-solid bowls of granite or whinstone, beautifully smooth, with a twist of handle on top. Each side has four players, each player two stones. Players slide the stones at a tee at the end of a 114-ft. rink. One man runs his stone up dead; his partner lays one to protect him. If a deft opponent may skid between them, knocking both aside, curlers say he gie'd them breeks...
...particularly dangerous. They are generally so well fed they don't bother you. Driving along we scared seven off their kill beside the road. All ran away except the 'old man,' who wagged his tail back and forth. But we didn't try to twist...
...position on the staff of the city's Psychiatric Clinic, first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition. The same year, aged...
...building catapulted a veritable geyser of flame and black smoke high into the heavens, spraying with a shower of glowing embers the spectators and Business School buildings, which were to the leeward of the raging inferno. Bright, sporadic flashes of newspaper photographers' powder charges lent a Fourth of July twist to a typical New England winter night. By 1.05, half a dozen hardy firemen drew a cheer from the throng when they struggled on the lean-to roof behind the central section of the doomed building carrying with them hoses and axes to attack the fire from close range...
...would reassure Egyptians and dispose them to wait until Britannia is ready to dole out their freedom, driblet by driblet. In asking for the whole bowl of porridge at once, last week, rash Prime Minister Nahas Pasha laid himself open to being considered at best an Oliver Twist. The original Oliver, as all remember, was locked up for a week in a "dark and solitary room" by the beef-eating Beadle...