Word: flipflop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soil bank and to Government farm price supports and controls. This spring Harris watched in strong disapproval as county soil bank authorities offered farmers $145 an acre not to plant cotton. Then, Harris put his whole Pima County farm in the bank. Explaining his apparent flipflop, Farmer Harris says: "I wanted to show how silly, and how unnecessary, this whole thing is." He also saw a chance to turn a huge profit...
Headaches & Blood Pressure. Red reformers did a complete flipflop. Health Minister Li Teh-chuan* began praising the "medical legacy of the nation" and the efficacy of herb medicines "proved by several thousand years' clinical experience." Some, of course, may actually be beneficial: Western doctors do not forget that they have derived modern wonders such as quinine and reserpine from primitive cures. But the vast majority are as useless as ground-up rhinoceros horn to cure impotence. Still, the peasants are being ordered to plant more medicinal herbs, and Government agencies are buying them and keeping prices down. Government chemists...