Word: reverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years vanish in an orgy of limousines, caviar and wedding receptions, roars like a wounded bull elephant. Debbie's best friend .blubbers her tragedy-with her husband unemployed, she cannot afford the matron of honor's gown. Appalled by these developments, Debbie and her fellow revert to Plan 1. They get married quietly; Father Borgnine is free to invest his nest egg in a taxi, and Bette Davis becomes rather suddenly and magically reconciled to a life she hates...
...without some new witticism from Nikita Khrushchev, some new revision of history, some political prisoner rehabilitated, some old scoundrel exposed. Every gesture may yet prove a fraud, or the Kremlin's masters-finding that small concessions lead to wider demands-may try to take it all back and revert to proved severities. But it was no longer enough to mock each concession as unreal, or to greet each one with the declaration that the Communists are still tyrants (which they are), or that the West must keep its guard up (which it must...
...lesson of Minnesota in the minds of many powerful figures in the Democratic Party is that no Democrat can compete with President Eisenhower on the middle ground of American politics. Therefore, they conclude the party must revert to its radical tradition and pick somebody who will wage a slashing attack on the Republicans from the left, even if this alienates the Democrats in the South...
Miss Rand again left the Howard Athenaeum in 1941 to entertain the Freshmen. She greeted them with a fine assortment of shady stories, but turned a deaf ear when the Yardlings implored her to revert to type. Some of the more impatient stripped to the waist to give Sally the idea...
...commission is not all profit, but covers the costs of preparing copy, researching markets, planning layouts, advising on public relations, and a score of other important selling services. For many an agency profits run about ¾% of billings; with that little margin nobody expects the advertising agency to revert to big-scale fee-splitting. Every man in a grey flannel suit knows that no modern ad agency competes on price, but on quality of service and results...