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It was atwist on the “Blair Witch” “Cloverfield” I kind of started to beleive it during the movie … ..

Is “The Fourth Kind” real or fake? Secrets revealed » Scene-Stealers 2009

The railway bridges over both these streams had been blown up by dynamite: some of the stone piers were shattered, and some of the iron girders hurled all atwist into the watery depths beneath; here and there culverts had similarly been destroyed, and at many a point the very rails had been torn by explosives till they looked like a pair of upturned arms imploring help from heaven.

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back Edward P. Lowry

Its nerves are all atwist, its brain does not work properly, its heart is too small.

The Silver Crown Another Book of Fables Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Although actually both Baucus and HR 3200 have in fact proposed making “cuts”* to Medicare otherwise there wouldn’t be any real “savings” in either plan but that’s not what Humana claimed in the flyer which got Baucus’ panties in atwist.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Humana Controversy and Government Funding: 2009