Word: switches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if voters do switch their attention from the crises overseas to inflation at home, Kennedy will still be up against his most enduring political problem: voters' doubts about his character. Because of them, he switched his broadcast spots in the last days of the New Hampshire campaign from criticism of Carter to character defenses by his mother Rose and sister-in-law Ethel. Rose Kennedy said her son was devoted to his family and had been "a tower of strength on the tragic occasions of the deaths of my three older sons." Ethel Kennedy described...
Since Jan. 1, when wine and liquor bottlers began observing a federal mandate to switch to metric measurement, the cost of boozing has been confusing. Pints, fifths, quarts, half-gallons and gallons are being replaced in stores by new-size bottles. The quart, for instance, is being supplanted by a container holding 1 liter (a good slurp more than the old bottle); a half-gallon jug of vino now comes in a 1.5-liter size, while the half-gallon of hard stuff has become a 1.75-liter container. Judging the better buy between sizes is enough to drive an Einstein...
Since Playwright Clark has only minimally rewritten the role, the switch from male to female does result in certain dissonances. It is unlikely that a woman would tell a string of off-color jokes or make raunchy remarks to female nurses...
...simple silk hat that once marked a minor with the ornate embi no ei (swallowtail ribbons) that symbolized manhood in ancient Japan. The presence of Grandfather Emperor Hirohito, 78, at the ceremony was especially auspicious. No other Japanese monarch has ever lived long enough to see a grandson switch hats...
...making the switch from agent to tattletale author, Snepp made a mistake: he ignored the written pledge that CIA employees make never to publish "any information" about the organization without submitting it for prior review. Last week, in a toughly worded ruling, the Supreme Court slammed Snepp hard for his transgression. By a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that the CIA secrecy pledge is very much a legally enforceable contract. In their terse nine-page opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger and the other five men in the majority noted that Snepp had "deliberately" violated his "obligation" to his former...