helter-skelter
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It replaces the Pinnacle, otherwise known as the Helter-Skelter, a contorted, would-be iconic design on which construction was abandoned after work started on its foundations and concrete core.
From The Guardian • Dec. 6, 2015
I always suspected that underneath Boyle's pastoral vision and Anish Kapoor's sketchy Helter-Skelter there would be 10,000 volunteers ready to burst this bubble.
From The Guardian • Jun. 20, 2012
"Hey!" cried the lady of the caravan, "Yes, to be sure--Who won the Helter-Skelter Plate?"
From Ten Girls from Dickens by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson
"Yes, to be sure———Who won the Helter-Skelter Plate, child?"
From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles
Poff! is this Mrs. Helter-Skelter a discreet sort of woman?
From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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