Word: turnabout
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...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...
...what is a turnabout of the standard procedure, Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, in opposing reticent and Fifth Amendment witnesses charged that "academic freedom means freedom to search for the truth and such freedom is not exercised by persons who are bound to a certain ideology or who belong to a conspiracy that justifies lying as a means of accomplishing its result. Academic freedom," he added criticising insubordinate teachers who have given ambiguous testimony, "is a right that belongs to people of integrity...
...what is a turnabout of the standard procedure, Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, in opposing reticent and Fifth Amendment witnesses charged that "academic freedom means freedom to search for the truth and such freedom is not exercised by persons who are bound to a certain ideology or who belong to a conspiracy that justifies lying as a means of accomplishing its result. Academic freedom," he added criticizing insubordinate teachers who have given ambiguous testimony, "is a right that belongs to people of integrity...
...score of fields reported that the slide has stopped. U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless announced to his stockholders that "an upturn in demand is beginning to appear." In the copper industry, which has recently been trimming production. Kennecott Copper President Charles R. Cox also reported a turnabout; his company will increase the work week from five to six days at four western mines. And a special committee of the Government's Business Advisory Council reported that the business decline has leveled...