Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Power-Stripped President. Homecoming as a hero contrasts sharply with Quadros' bewildering and unheroic abdication last August. In the crisis that followed. Brazil's military forced a switch from a presidential to a parliamentary system, designed to block rabble-rousing Veep João ("Jango") Goulart from gaining full executive power as President. But the result has been aimless drift and a leadership vacuum, under the Tweedledum-Tweedledee administration of power-stripped President Goulart and a dreamy Prime Minister named Tancredo Neves. As Quadros neared home, the danger of a Quadros power grab finally stirred Quadros' predecessor...
...permit train operating crews to switch their own trains in terminals (a job now done by separate yard crews...
...Sure. The TV and radio audiences were told by Lieut. Colonel John ("Shorty") Powers, press chief of Project Mercury (see PRESS) that there had been "an indication of a problem with the heat shield deployment switch. The signal apparently was erroneous." But at the time, neither the men on the ground nor the astronaut in the sky were so sure that the signal was wrong...
Late in the war, Glenn got a chance to hunt Russian-built MIG-158 when he was assigned to fly Air Force F-86s up along the Yalu. Characteristically, Glenn was well prepared for the switch to F-86s; back in the States he had taken leave to learn how to fly the hot jet. In his plane, which was named "The MIG-Mad Marine," Glenn got three MIGs in nine days. "Funny how the bullets sparkle when they hit a plane," he wrote home after one victory. "Just light up like little lights every time a bullet hits. Really...
...confected by patriarchal Milton S. Hershey, an ambitious farmboy who learned to make taffies that he called "French Secrets," went broke in three candy businesses before he built Hershey Chocolate in 1903 on the cornfields surrounding the house in which he was born. Exploiting a turn-of-the-century switch in U.S. tastes from other candies to chocolate, Milton Hershey put out a bar that quickly cornered the market and, in the absence of competition, needed no advertising. Ever since, Hershey's greatest strength has been the fact that for most Americans "Hershey bar" and "chocolate" are synonymous...