Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden switch, Subandrio served notice that he was through with President Sukarno and ready to side with Defense Minister Abdul Haris Nasution and the rest of the military brass, who are consolidating their hold on the country. Whether his move will be successful is in doubt. Many officers still suspect Subandrio of sympathy with-if not complicity in-the coup attempt, and the army shows no willingness to settle for anything less than a clean-broom housecleaning of all Reds and Red sympathizers.* Stepping up its campaign' to discredit the Communists, the army last week made public the confession...
...chloroquine and 45 mg. of another antimalarial known as primaquine. If they develop malaria despite this, they are likely to be infected by a resistant strain of parasites. If massive doses of chloroquine fail to bring the fever down within a few hours, the medics may switch to pyrimethamine (Daraprim), which is effective in some of the less severe cases. In most instances, however, the medics are forced back to quinine, the oldest antimalarial of all. For pernicious malaria threatening the brain, quinine must be given intravenously in heavy doses, which may in itself cause death...
Edward T. Wilcox, secretary of the CEP. said the committee had been impressed by Furry's arguments, and had agreed particularly that students who switch out of the sciences after their freshman year should not be forced back in order to take another course. "They'll have enough trouble getting all their work done in their new field of concentration" Wilcox said...
According to Washington columnist Joseph Kraft, the President regards Bundy "not so much a necessity as a convenience." Kraft believes that the President will switch Bill Moyers, his press secretary, to Bundy...
Sometime next month a switch will be thrown at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, sending light flooding into the experimental hall that has been dark since last July's explosion. For many Harvard and M.I.T. physicists it will signal the start of a million dollar gamble...