Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poll of Paris newspapers (on the basis, among other things, of her prediction that two French scientists would win the Nobel Prize), predicted that Germany would make significant advances toward reunification and that Russia might land on the moon. England's Maurice Woodruff foresaw a turnabout in England's fortunes, the fall from power of both Castro and Lyndon Johnson, and a revival in the popularity of the name of Roosevelt...
...Quite a turnabout, indeed, for a team that sold only 1,914 season tickets in 1961, and never has enjoyed a winning season in its six-year history. The turnabout is especially sweet for Don Meredith, 28, who has been a Cowboys' quarterback ever since he graduated from Southern Methodist in 1960-and has taken the brunt of the fans' abuse...
Extra Rubles. That time has not, of course, come for the ordinary Russian as yet. But the very fact that the Kremlin holds up the goal as an ideal is a remarkable turnabout in Communist ideology. So, too, is the newly christened town of Togliatti, the Russian Detroit on the Volga, where a huge Fiat automobile plant is being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly...
...called Educare, has attracted 160 students. It will add another 25 next fall and will honor its first graduate this summer. She is Mrs. Amanda Hicks, 67, who turned to teaching school and operating a 450-acre farm after her husband died in 1940. She chuckles at the turnabout fashion in which her grandchildren keep warning, "You better get to your studying, Grandma...
...Iowa, the Des Moines Register reported that while the President led Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney 45% to 31% in a January poll, he trailed him 46% to 35% in May-and it is safe to assume that Viet Nam was a major factor in the turnabout...