Word: turnabout
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...Turnabout. Some were fly-by-night operators who had wangled CMP chits and were trying to buy steel for resale on the grey market. Most were established companies, many of them in direct defense production. Chrysler Corp., for example, with 10% of its space turned over to arms output, said that it would not be able to produce its quota of cars this quarter. It might even have to close down next month unless it gets more steel...
Kirkland's nine whipped Leverett, 9 to 1. The softball game was a turnabout with the Bunnies victors...
...familiar narrative trail. Its destination: that old tried-and-tired Grand Hotel situation, into which the invading Pathans burst as uninvited guests. Some cleanly chronicled violence whets The Scarlet Sword's edge. But no amount of honing can file away such a collection of rusty cliches as the turnabout of the shunned prostitute who finally reveals her heart of gold; Correspondent Crane's scorn at first sight and love at second for the English girl he meets at the mission; and the transformation of the dreamy bumpkin (this time clothed in clerical robes) into a two-fisted fighting...
Orders from the Chief. If magazine editors as well as generals and statesmen were tripped up by the turnabout in Korea, so were many U.S. newspapers. In their efforts to keep up with fast-moving news, some editorial writers had a hard time deciding where to stand...
...washed its hands of Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's diehard Nationalists prepared their last stand. Mao's army, harassed by Chiang's naval & air blockade, stood poised for an invasion. Then Stalin's North Koreans moved across the 38th parallel. In a dramatic turnabout of policy, the American eagle soared from its lackadaisical perch...