crookedness

The ball’s initial position, its kinetic energy, its angular momentum – and all the other factors: the friction acting on the ball, the ricketiness of the table, the crookedness of the house.

This company is less well known than Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family but Enrich says its “entire business model seemed to hinge on crookedness.”

Those associated with dominant smiles include elevated eyelids, raised cheeks, wrinkled nose, lifted upper lip and that signature crookedness.

“There is all this doubt, so many questions, so many suggestions that there was crookedness.”

The America in which Windrip thrives is one that has casually accepted not only antisemitism and racism, but “Tammany grafting and Chicago gangs and the crookedness of so many of President Harding’s appointees,” Jessup reflects.