Word: turnabout
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...retreat from integration in recent weeks, surprisingly few blacks have spoken out in sorrow or anger. Black leaders, normally quick off the mark to meet any new challenge to civil rights, have largely kept quiet. Their silence in part reflects the general confusion and uncertainty over the turnabout. More important, it shows that for increasing numbers of black leaders and thoughtful black citizens, integration is no longer the magic formula it was in the heady, exultant days following the 1954 Brown decision. There is a new sense among blacks of the limits to what integration can achieve-and a deepening...
...observers began analyzing the election returns, they seemed to agree on only one thing: the turnabout-achieved by only narrow margins in both races-reflected the popularity of individual CCA-endorsed candidates rather than any major increase in the CCA's overall voting strength. "Each [of the CCA councillors] made it on his own; they didn't run as a team," said one veteran city politician...
...November 3 speech could have been an historic turnabout in American foreign policy. Instead, it offered discredited rhetoric in place of vision and leadership...
Idiom of Wood. Nikita Khrushchev had had little interest in restoring old monuments, declaring that the money would be better spent on workers' flats. After his fall from power in 1965, a turnabout in policy occurred and the government began an intensive restoration drive. It formed the Society for the Protection of Historical and Artistic Monuments, an organization that today claims 2,000,000 members, to provide volunteers for restoration work. Last year the Ministry of Culture spent an estimated 5,000,000 rubles (about $5,500,000) on restoration...
...Whoever they are, the new men will probably be more conservative than either Fortas or Warren, who were in close agreement on most issues. Still, conservative critics who expect a turnabout in decisions are almost certain to be disappointed. For one thing, the major decisions of the Warren Court are largely irreversible, already part of the social fabric. For another, the court almost always changes at a pace that can only be called glacial. Innovations usually proceed decision by decision, year by year...