Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they really believe a farmer is so lacking in intelligence, that he would continue to produce a crop for which he had no market ? Actually, he would switch to some crop that he could sell, and those farmers who are growing wheat merely for the Government payments would stop. There just wouldn't be any profit for them...
...witness had failed to appear at the opening of Downum's trial in San Antonio, and at the prosecution's request the jury was dismissed. A new jury was impaneled only two days later and the trial begun. But, ruled the Supreme Court, the jury switch nonetheless amounted to double jeopardy. It was the third civil liberties decision in five weeks in which President Kennedy's two appointees were split. Each time Justice Byron "Whizzer" White has voted with the minority of judicial "conservatives," while Justice Arthur Goldberg has voted with the "liberal" majority. » Agreed...
...Penny declares, "and God the same as Mussolini, and Italy and the Fatherland less than God but more than my yellow bear." School is a hodgepodge of religion and Fascism. The children sing Ave Maria with a lily in their right hands; then they bawl out the Fascist hymn, switch the lily to their left hands and give the Roman salute...
...fact, they needed that much time to organize their parties for an election campaign. The civilians knew who their most potent opponent would be: General Park himself, who no doubt would use the six-month postponement to build up a grass-roots political organization strong enough to help him switch from fatigues to flannels and take office as a civilian President...
...years in the sunlit hills of Southern France in a solitary search for the pure sensations of color. And even more than his oils, the hermit master's ventures in the casual medium of watercolor blaze with a natural incandescence that never could be summoned by a light switch...