Word: switched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since he started playing hockey at the age of five, Blair had been giving it his all. After putting in two years as a defenseman on the community all-star team, he decided to switch to playing goal...
Understandably, the Rogers commission wanted to know what had caused the switch at Thiokol. Testified Lund: "We got ourselves into the thought process that we were trying to find some way to prove to them it (the booster) wouldn't work. We couldn't prove absolutely that it wouldn't work." When Mason was asked whether telling Lund to put on his management hat did not amount to pressuring his subordinate to change his mind, he replied, "Well, I hope not, but it could be interpreted that way." Both Hardy and Mulloy insisted that they had exerted no pressure...
Early in the second period, the Crimson enjoyed a 5-on-3 for 1:32 but was unable to put the puck in. The power play was operating without Fusco and while it retained some of its previous movement, its penchant for finding the little red light switch was missing...
...incoherent ramblings of a narrow-minded ideologue, since they typify a broad repressive trend within the criminal justice system. Increasingly, this attitude has characterized a significant proportion of the people in positions to convict criminals, sentence them, strike down their appeals, sign their death warrants, and flick the switch on the chair. Juvenile execution is simply the most obvious example, since the execution of minors requires an idea brutal and convincing enough to obliterate the traditional sympathies which compel us to extend lenience to children...
Only Linda Boggeri, who happened to read the name on the bracelet as she was putting it in a scrapbook, realized that the switch had occured. The other family was oblivious. What if Mrs. Boggeri hadn't read the name in her scrapbook for three years, or five, or 11. What to do then...