Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Explaining Soapy. The big question in the minds of Soapy's ardent friends and well-wishers is whether he can ever revert to the independent old Soapy of Salisbury, Princeton and Michigan. Or will his political indebtedness, like his graying hair, increase as he progresses further into politics? The questions are extremely pertinent because Soapy, as ever, has budgeted his time closely. He would like to be in the Senate by 1954 and in the White House...
...Avco's new engine production, of course. The Air Force had suddenly discovered that altering and equipping the plant at Government expense for Avco would run into millions; it didn't like the idea that when Avco's lease ran out, the plant would revert to Hirsch, improvements and all. Hirsch filed suit to protect his property...
Giving the textile mills as an example, Dunlop said that the Board had power (Regulation 8) to revert to a previous date--in the case of steel back to October...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
...first and most powerful impression of Russia was one of fantastic decrepitude; almost everything - roads and railways, buildings new or old - is in a state of the utmost decay. Leaving Moscow, the main roads are of tar for a certain distance, and then either dwindle into narrow strips, or revert to broken and undulating cobbles and to earth...