Word: turnabout
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...Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...
...lyrics written in Moscow and a melody plagiarized from the song of the Lorelei, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl announced a big turnabout in Communist tactics in East Germany. "The Politburo, in these decisions," said the announcement, "has in mind the great goal of German unity." Some of the decisions...
...eight-year attempt to bolshevize East Germany. The Communists, confessed Premier Grotewohl, had made a "series of mistakes" which were now being rectified. "The former Soviet Control Commission is to a certain extent responsible for the mistakes which were made," admitted the official Soviet newspaper in East Berlin. The turnabout was, in part at least, dictated by the unbearable hardships, the hunger, the shortages and bureaucratic chaos which Soviet postwar rule had imposed on East Germany...
...problem in the Bureau of Standards. He had decided, he announced, that Dr. Astin should stay on for two or three months, while a committee from the National Academy of Sciences studies both the bureau and the AD-X2 case and makes a report. Added Weeks, in a hasty turnabout: "At no time has there been any intent ... to cast reflection upon the integrity of the bureau or the professional competence or integrity of Dr. Astin . . . Such differences as I have had with Dr. Astin result from a conflict with respect to administrative viewpoint and procedure...
...York's City Opera Company, which has made itself a fine reputation mounting such neglected modern masterpieces as Berg's Wozzeck and Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, last week did a turnabout. It wet its thumb, leafed back through the decades, and uncovered a neglected oldtimer that had not been heard in Manhattan since the days of Andrew Jackson: Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). It left the opening-night audience whooping with delight...