Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ultimate objective remains the same as always-to set up a universal Communist dictatorship run from Moscow. She thinks she can make better progress by concealing her bloodstained bludgeon under a pile of olive branches and trying the more subtle art of poison. By lulling the West she can revert to her early plot to gain control of the world by infiltration, through her fifth columns and similar subversive agents trained in Moscow...
...theoretical advantages of a four-year term have demonstrated themselves in practice. In the past twelve years five states have adopted four year terms for the governor, while none of the twenty-eight with quadrennial elections has chosen to revert to two year tenure. Voters in Massachusetts also should provide their Governor and state officials next year with the temporary insulation from politics that will enable them to work more efficiently...
Hawkins did a 2:13.3 in the same race at the Eastern's last Saturday, but this weekend his dolphin kick wasn't working so well, and he was forced to revert to the standard frog...
...deanery, the Lampoon, and the Student Council behaved sagely and with wisdom throughout the year, our list might be extended. Next year perhaps one of these bodies will revert to type or perhaps future editorial boards will see fit to air their own foibles. For the present, however, we choose rather to bow out with skeletons still shrouded and with thanks to our readership for its indulgences...
After three weeks of instruction, Filler thought he had enough. But Parson Perry was adamant, and Parent Filler made arrangements to have Christine baptized in the neighboring parish of St. John's. "I think the Church of England must be in a very bad way to revert to forced religion," he said. "It's blackmail...