The twist lay in using Bing Crosby's voice on the sound track while leading man Eddie Bracken mouthed the words.

The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.

In a final twist, Bradley later went on to discover the existence of the nutation of the Earth's axis – the effect that he had originally considered to be the cause of aberration.

* The Black Magic, a sour twist on the Black Russian, can be made by adding a dash of lemon juice and a lemon twist garnish.

Nuestra Señora de los Vampiros is a black and white one-shot published in 1999 by Spanish comic publisher Dude Comics based on the story by Sheridan Le Fanu, but with a modern twist.

Since then, the tariff is calculated by a formula based on various factors such as the number of twist and somersaults, the height, the group etc., and divers are free to submit new combinations.

" Unready " is a mistranslation of Old English unræd ( meaning bad-counsel ) — a twist on his name " Æthelred " ( meaning noble-counsel ).

There was another twist on 28 July, however, when FMF Chairman Hari Punja called the lifting of the ban a fabrication.

Here, a single twist is illustrated, with left-plaited and right-plaited stitches on the left and right, respectively.

At specific points indicated by the pattern, the cable needle is moved, the stitches on it are worked by the other needles, then the cable needle is turned around to a different position to create the cable twist.

A properly made kilt, when buckled on the tightest holes of the straps, is not so loose that the wearer can easily twist the kilt around their body, nor so tight that it causes " scalloping " of the fabric where it is buckled.

If the pitch of this twist is on the order of the wavelength of visible light, then interesting optical interference effects can be observed.

* The Descartes line, " I drink therefore I am ", is a twist on his well known phrase " Cogito, ergo sum ," or " I think therefore I am ".

For one example, he expressed this playfulness in what is perhaps his most famous rhyme, a twist on Joyce Kilmer's verse: " I think that I shall never see / a poem lovely as a tree ", which drops " billboard " in place of poem and adds, " Indeed, unless the billboards fall / I'll never see a tree at all.

Stir well and twist a piece of lemon peel on top and serve.

On a twist round, players make the decision of which card to replace in turn starting with the player who bet first on the preceding round ( usually the player whose upcards make the best hand ), discarding the card they choose to replace, if any.

In an apparent twist on the myth of the so-called Five Ages of Man found in Hesiod's Works and Days ( wherein Cronus and, later, Zeus created and destroyed five successive races of mortal men ), Prometheus asserts that Zeus had wanted to obliterate the human race, but that he somehow stopped him.

From the mid-1960s on, as " rock and roll " yielded gradually to " rock ", later dance genres followed, starting with the twist, and leading up to funk, disco, house, techno, and hip hop.

Writer / Director Michael Pleckaitis puts his own twist on the genre with Silent ( 2007 ).

Modern updates on screwball comedy may also sometimes be categorized as black comedy ( Intolerable Cruelty, which also features a twist on the classic screwball element of divorce and re-marriage ).

A cartoon based on the book of the same name, it retold classic tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, but with a twist.

In a humorous twist, it achieved its independence on the Fourth of July.

In a comic twist Oscar is mistaken for a gay man when meeting with Charles Newman ( made even more humorous by the fact that Peter is genuinely gay, with Oscar's comments leading Newman to think that Peter's the straight one ).

In a morbid twist his death and the timing of his funeral is considered to be the deciding factor in keeping Charles Haughey as leader of Fianna Fáil, when the support for the campaign to oust him dwindled following the funeral.

As with customs in other countries, the fruitcake toss is a sort of festive symbolic leave-taking of the Christmas holidays until next year, but with humorous twist, since fruitcake ( although the traditional Christmas bread of America, England and other English speaking nations ) is considered in the United States with a certain degree of derision, and is the source of many jokes.

Clues to this twist can be spotted throughout the film, including Joan Collins ' character wearing the brooch her husband had given her for Christmas just before she killed him.

" Having an episode's worth of story told in front of the class was later used in the eighth season episode " Woodland Critter Christmas ", which has Cartman telling a Christmas themed story ( in a plot twist ).

") After arguing over whether John had sent Blanche a Christmas card ( he had — it was buried in a stack of newspapers ), they exchanged their gifts to each other ... with a twist.

" The two sought to write an episode in the tradition of old classic Christmas specials with their own irreverent South Park twist, and so they watched the famous 1965 Peanuts special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, repeatedly during the production process.

He raced by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the neck, but a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick twist she slipped the noose off.

In a twist of fate, Kantorek is later called up as a soldier as well.

It is certainly not impossible to twist a double bond.

When she persuades him to blurt out the whole story, a twist is revealed — Charlotte's little sister is a school friend of Anne's.

The symbol Λ ( lambda ) is used as a prefix to describe the left-handed propeller twist formed by three bidentate ligands, as shown.

Likewise, the symbol Δ ( delta ) is used as a prefix for the right-handed propeller twist.

A yarn's usefulness is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and its appearance, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

The strength of the spun yarn against breaking is determined by the amount of twist, the length of the fibers and the thickness of the yarn.

The tilting is done by the arms, which are outstretched to the sides just before the twist.

At the completion of the required number of twist rotations, the arm motion is reversed ( the steering wheel is turned back ), which removes the body's tilt and stops the twisting rotation.

Epigrams are also thought of as having a " point " that is, the poem ends in a punchline or satirical twist.

An interesting twist to the 4GL scene is realization that graphical interfaces and the related reasoning done by the user form a ' language ' that is poorly understood.

the Scandinavian wammie, to bore or twist ; the modern French is gibelet.

A yarn's usefulness for a knitting project is judged by several factors, such as its loft ( its ability to trap air ), its resilience ( elasticity under tension ), its washability and colorfastness, its hand ( its feel, particularly softness vs. scratchiness ), its durability against abrasion, its resistance to pilling, its hairiness ( fuzziness ), its tendency to twist or untwist, its overall weight and drape, its blocking and felting qualities, its comfort ( breathability, moisture absorption, wicking properties ) and of course its look, which includes its color, sheen, smoothness and ornamental features.

The strength of the spun yarn against breaking is determined by the amount of twist, the length of the fibers and the thickness of the yarn.