Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where is the Washington phrasemaker to turn if he is hung up for what Horace called "words a foot and a half long"? Simple. Just glance at the Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector, or S.B.P.P...
...Though most people find it unthinkable that the Soviets would risk the start of World War III by attacking a NATO member, the West Germans nonetheless worry that the Soviet leaders might try to intimidate them with a further show of force that could, perhaps by accident, turn into an invasion. Reports of Soviet tactical nuclear missiles in Czechoslovakia could only increase West German anxiety. Says Helmut Schmidt, the Socialists' parliamentary leader: "We cannot rule out the possibility that momentum of Soviet propaganda attacks might snowball into armed action...
...living. Within 48 hours, survivors in the major villages received emergency supplies, and Iranian air force C-130s were soon parachuting tents and blankets to hamlets unreachable by road. Nothing more could be done for the dead. Four days after the earthquake, the government reluctantly ordered in bulldozers to turn what once were the victims' homes into their permanent graves. The leveled villages will be abandoned, and new ones built nearby for the survivors...
...member United Federation of Teachers was threatening to repeat its opening-bell strike of last September. Then, the main issue was more money for the teachers. This year, the dispute centers on a controversy over efforts to break up the city's huge, bureaucratic system and turn control of the schools over to community-run local boards. Some such decentralization was ordered by New York's state legislature last year in return for providing the city with more state funds. The move has aroused racial passions, challenged teacher security, unsettled the bureaucrats and touched off public hassles...
...north central Alabama. "There is a decency about people here," he says. He was happy with the racial progress that was being made in Alabama until George Wallace became Governor. "I suppose the reason I keep involved is that I resent Wallace's effort to turn back the clock...