Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach John Stiegman anticipated a few problems with his offense this year when he decided to switch from Penn's traditional single-wing to a multiple offense based on a T formation...
Foreign Affairs. In foreign and defense matters, Wilson creates some uneasiness in Washington. He wants to abandon Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, wants to renegotiate the Nassau agreement, which originally promised Britain Polaris missiles. This switch might not trouble Washington. But Wilson is also known to be cool, if not downright hostile, to joining M.L.F., the multilateral nuclear force that the U.S. is pushing hard, and he is sometimes regarded as a little too eager for a détente with Communism and for various disarmament schemes. But despite the lingering left wing, Harold Wilson's Labor Party...
...confusion of products-bottle caps, plastic containers and paper cartons among them-although cans still account for more than half their sales. Continental is about to open two new plants to make plastic bags, has just come out with a new plastic motor-oil "can"-the fourth switch in its oilcan materials in as many years. American has just introduced tiny aerosol tubes that contain a seven-day supply of such items as hair spray and shaving cream for travelers, is spinning out a line of two-tone scented toilet tissue and conducting a campaign to replace "the dirtiest thing...
...switch made sense. Duplicating its efforts in cameras and transistor radios, Japan has quietly become a top producer of watches, aggressively competing around the world against the long-unchallenged watchmakers of Europe. Japanese watch production has ticked upward from 2,000,000 annually to 11,700,000 in a decade, now ranks fourth behind that of Switzerland, Russia...
...Switch in Time. Black responded so magnificently to his new job that today he is no more welcome in racist Alabama than he would ever have been in fiery Salem. The Court responded so adroitly to F.D.R.'s packing threat that it began upholding New Deal legislation in a turnabout that cynics called "a switch in time that saved nine." Ever since, its judicial concern has been focused not so much on property rights as on human rights...