Word: turnabout
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...This turnabout at Chicago's off-season powwow followed hard upon the minor leagues' meeting at Columbus, Ohio where Happy had been kicked around. The minors voted to strip him of his veto power over their legislation, action that would have left him crippled. The majors voted down this proposal, also scrapped a project of the minors to cut from the Commissioner's job control of the recently established $50,000 baseball promotional fund. The result: Happy was happy again. Said he: "I'm . . . not bloodied...
...Turnabout. To expedite a peace treaty with Italy, the U.S. proposed waiving virtually all Italian reparations. On the question of Italian colonies the three powers reversed the positions each had taken at San Francisco on trusteeships. Then, the U.S. (thinking of Pacific is lands) and Britain had stressed one-power administration of dependent areas; Russia (playing to world opinion) had fought for joint trusteeships...
...Burma campaign had come a long way. There was still a long way to go, but the turnabout of war's fortunes appeared to be only beginning...
Liberal Conservative. There was little doubt that OPA's life would be extended, and that the extension would be agreed to with none of the usual brawling. This turnabout is partly due to belated recognition by civilians of the fact that wartime price control is necessary. But it is chiefly a tribute to Chester Bowles, who is often described in Washington, a town of masterminds, as a man of ordinary intellect who knows how to talk to the public and to Congressmen, i.e., other men of ordinary intellect...
...Lost Man. One day a London newspaper broke into Professor Sakimura's seclusion, broke apart his life with a lurid account of his turnabout. Stung into face-saving fury, Japanese and Nazi agents insulted, browbeat, threatened him. They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...