Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Zigzag Diplomacy. Sihanouk has executed such a dizzying series of flip-flops in the cold war that he is getting to be known as the man who would rather switch than fight...
...everybody else uses? Nothing to it, says the University of London's John Downing, the top I.T.A. researcher. "Automatic transference" seems to occur because I.T.A. children are meanwhile seeing regular spelling on everything from street signs to newspapers. This makes them all the prouder to switch to "grownup writing," says Downing. Average children do it in minutes after laying aside their I.T.A. books. Those "hopeless" seven-year-olds did it in two hours...
Things sure have changed. Quite a switch from Easter bunnies and baskets to Bermuda and booze. It's kind of easy to forget the Story they taught us when we were kids. Guess they still go for it in churches...
...Automatic controls, available even in $1,200 models, are largely responsible for the newly broadened market; they enable owners to go off on vacation confident that proper heat, ventilation and humidity will be maintained by gadgetry that can turn on the sprinkler system, raise and lower vents, switch on the lights at night. When the owners return, they can simply walk in and start weeding...
Dockery will probably end up in the lineup somewhere, though, if only because he is a switch hitter. Without him, the Crimson has one left-handed batter in the probable starting lineup--Lee Sargent, the third baseman who hit a less-than-robust .209 last year...