It's a twister!

That twister. He's a contortionist.

I heard a twister hit Waco.

When it touches the earth, a twister is born.

That twister two years ago, like a big black dog chasing his tail!

Last they seen of her, she was going over the hill like a Kansas twister.

The twister had thrown tons of metal, wood and glass into the air with the power of a machine gun.

In just 15 minutes, the twister had devastated the community, and in the hours that followed, survivors struggled to the school gym, one of the few remaining buildings.

But treating force and diplomacy as distinct phases of foreign policy gives the negotiating parties the sense that American power lacks purpose and resolve. Diplomatic ripening sometimes requires the mediator to be a manipulator and an arm twister.