Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangerous rival for leadership of the Arab world.) Then the word from Moscow-"An effort to evade U.N. debate of Syria's complaint," snarled Pravda-got through to Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj and his fellow leftists in the Syrian government. In an abject turnabout, President Kuwatly hastily got off a message begging Saud to withdraw his offer...
Equally important was the party turnabout on foreign policy. In the 85th Congress it was the Democrats, who have long made internationalism an article of faith, who stalled the Eisenhower Doctrine and gutted foreign aid. And it was the Republicans, long associated in the public mind with isolationism, who stood with the President in his fight for free-world security...
...into the "political business" was his well-founded fear that right-wing Republicans would impose on the U.S. a policy of political and economic isolationism. Last week President Eisenhower was still fighting against such a policy, and fighting as rarely before. But this time, in a historic political turnabout, it was Congressional Democrats that the President had to meet in maneuver. The Democrats were gutting the U.S. foreign-aid program that they had long claimed as their very...
Bastardized. It was no use: a majority of Democrats defeated a majority of Republicans in beating down amendments seeking the restoration of foreign-aid funds. Indeed, such was the party turnabout that Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, a Democrat who remained loyal to foreign aid, berated his fellow Democrats for deserting their own program. ''This is your baby,'' thundered Flood. "Do you make this a bastard child...
...Senate to pass the weak bill as the best possible. So did ardently pro-Ike New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond. So did the civil-righteous Washington Post and Times Herald: famed Post Cartoonist Herbert Block (Herblock), who is forever lampooning Eisenhower for indecisiveness, did an astonishing turnabout to sketch an impulsive Ike pointing a revolver at a fair Miss Civil Rights...