Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turnabout resulted from a ludicrously simple one-word error in El Caribe last Oct. 27. By an unexplained fluke, a picture caption in that issue mentioned that flowers had been placed before Trujillo's tomb (tumba); the word should have been bust (busto). It was a fatal error, Ornes explained last week, because Trujillo "is very vain and superstitious. He thinks he is immortal, and the worst thing you can do is suggest his death." When he saw the word tumba in print, Ornes said to his U.S.-born wife: "This is the end of everything...
...debating-joined in for the first time since he left office by Assemblyman Mendès-France himself-France's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the government proposal to grant Tunisia internal self-government in gradual stages over the next 20 years. Even the Communists did an unexpected turnabout, tossing their 98 Assembly votes in on the government side and leaving only the extreme right in opposition. The vote: 540 for Tunisian home rule, 43 against...
Republicans made the most of Leader's turnabout. Jeered U.S. Senator and ex-Governor James Duff: "The Leader tax program is sure enough a rock 'em, sock 'em plan, a regular Donnybrook Fair idea. When you look around to see who is getting hurt, you get socked right on the button yourself-more of a tax smack by hundreds of millions than was ever before proposed in Pennsylvania, most of it in direct violation of definite campaign pledges." But George Leader stood his ground. He snapped: "I have just begun to fight...
...motor-man-conductor teams on streetcars, pushed onto the busy bus driver the added chores of change-making, direction-giving, etc. Nerves frayed by traffic, many drivers became rude and disagreeable, thereby turned still more customers away. Said the Houston Post: "Management and drivers . . . seem to be taking turnabout tapping nails into the coffin...
...Senator Irving Ives, in the recent new York campaign. What began as a high-level, rather academic debate on the merits, or lack of them, of the Dewey administration turned into a free-for-all in the final weeks. Faced with a wholly unexpected defeat, Dewey dictated a complete turnabout in Republican campaign tactics, and Senator Ives obeyed, whatever his real feelings on the matter were. Nevertheless, the Republicans will be evacuating the State House in Albany in January...