Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some time that the Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking nearly wrecked China's agriculture-without accomplishing its industrial goals, either. At present, Li Fu-chun is masterminding a gigantic turnabout, trying to relax some of the inhuman pressures on China's peasants in order to maintain at least subsistence food production...
...Turnabout. Another crash program was launched, this time to help agriculture. As once the farmers had been marched into the factories, now the workers were marched onto the farms. In Kiangsi province, 480,000 workers were ordered out of their industrial plants and into the fields. In Shansi, 400,000 more were (in Peking's phrase) "retrenched" from dam construction and industry to the soil. Now, three years too late, the Communist Party announced that it was putting "industry at the service of agriculture." A Harbin plant switched from making freight cars to repairing tractors; in Kansu...
...pleurisy, contracted at Stalin's funeral). From his modernistic mausoleum in suburban Prague's Vitkov Hill, where he lay in public view, Gottwald was moved to a national memorial park and placed underground. Novotny himself used to be a notorious Stalinist, but in an ironic and macabre turnabout managed to blame most of his party's past Stalinist errors on former Party Boss Rudolf Slansky, who was hanged in 1952. Slansky, went the story, had misled Gottwald into the Stalinist personality cult, but despite "shortcomings and mistakes" he was still "a leading revolutionary...
...filled with friends of foreign aid, could have been persuaded to recommend a three-year program with the necessary financing. But such a recommendation seemed unlikely to get through the House as a whole-particularly after national Republican Leaders Richard Nixon and Nelson Rock efeller (who made an apparent turnabout from his previous public stands) had announced their support of annual foreign aid appropriations...
...school integration. Negro pressure triggered these changes, just as two Negro students entering the University of Georgia last winter helped to topple the entire fac,ade of Georgia's once rigid state segregation laws. But equally important was the graceful acceptance of the inevitable by white Georgians. Their turnabout must be accounted a milestone in the history of the U.S. South...