The 6 occurrences of screw-up
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Through some screw-up in the great scheme of the universe, their narrow-minded greed had brought them vast wealth, unstoppable power and growing social prestige."
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It was the biggest screw-up of courage he had ever accomplished in his life, and to be done out of his rewarding big feast by that purring skeleton of a king of beasts!
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"That kid's been a screw-up since he was five years old."
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"We shan't say, certain positive, that bugglers took it, but we s'pose so," said Dotty, softening her judgment, as she remembered her mistake about the "screw-up pencil."
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They are screw-up brakes.
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Then, just as I was giving the nuts a final screw-up, preparatory to packing the tools away in the back, he said-- "I expect, Ewart, this long run of ours has puzzled you very much, hasn't it?"