Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of continuing electoral defeat, West Germany's Social Democrats did exactly the reverse. Last November they junked nationalization in favor of a kind of New Deal capitalism, which would include "as much competition as possible, as much planning as necessary." Three weeks ago -a major post-summit switch-they abandoned their long insistence that Germany might strike a bargain with the Russians, giving up NATO membership in exchange for a unified (if neutralized) Germany. Said the party's Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner: "Like the Christian Democrats' position, the Socialist position is that the European pact system...
...Hand at the Tie. As always, Khrushchev could switch with bewildering speed from bully to ham. "Communism is my elixir of life," he bragged. "All I want is to live long enough to see the Red flag flying all over the world." At one point, riding through the Alps by cable car, he burst into the Volga Boatmen's song, insisted that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko join in. While his wife Nina stayed humbly to the rear, he flirted with his attractive blonde Minister of Culture, Ekaterina Furtseva, 50. They joined in frequent private giggles, and occasionally she straightened...
...take days of continuous treatment to knock out all the rapidly reproducing cancer cells. In that time, the drug will kill so many normal cells that the patient's life may be threatened. Why not, asked Dr. Sullivan, give the drug continuously by arterial drip, but switch off its damaging effects every few hours by injecting an antidote...
Stuart Vaughan's directing usually shows a sure hand, but, to switch extremities, he makes one false step. Part One ends with an overly theatrical addition: soldiers kneel in a hollow halfcircle, facing inward with banners flying, and cheer several times: "For England and Saint George!.!" This might come off after Henry V, but Henry IV: I does not end on a note that can sustain a gesture such as Vaughan has added to the script. Except for this mistake, Vaughan's staging always enhances Shakespeare and shows his willingness to trust the plays, a welcome change from the fooling...
...Whom the Bells Toll. In Bilston, Staffordshire, England, after years of awarding prayer books to confirmation candidates, St. Leonard's Church decided to switch to alarm clocks...