Word: flipflopping
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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...
...three hours before Wallace appeared, they had exhorted and entertained the crowd. New York's Communist-minded Congressman Vito Marcantonio went through his forensic routine, stamping his foot, convulsively clawing the air. His target was New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, whom he attacked as "FlipFlop Willie" because the mayor, having once praised the American Labor Party, now called it Communist...
...that applications need not specify exact routes to be considered; that in any case they should "include a general provision which will permit [them] to be construed as [good] for any new route which the Board may find to be required. . . ." Airmen thanked Good Neighbor grumbling for this sudden flipflop, figured that it must also mean that all the talk about more equipment for them was finally about to pay off in planes instead of promises...
...North American local got more boos than cheers. President Roland Jay Thomas, as inept as a June bug, bumped his head against both sides. Many a cautious delegate believed that a Red purge might do U.A.W. more harm than good. But the Reuther group, angry at Frankensteen's flipflop, were out for blood...
...remanding the case to District Court for further evidence. Chief Justice Hughes's majority opinion declared: "The main issue in this litigation is whether the rates as fixed by the commission's order are confiscatory." At what looked to him less like a decision than a flipflop of indecision, dissenting Justice Pierce Butler spoke a tart word: "Our decisions ought to be sufficiently definite and permanent to enable counsel usefully to advise clients...