Word: turnabout
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...Douglas), marry his secretary, Tama (Margo), help his country by building public works. Taro is drafted anyhow. In China, Taro suddenly acquires a taste for torture, begins to believe that father was right. But by the time Taro gets home on leave, his father has done a remarkable turnabout, is now convinced that Japan is headed for ruin...
After taking away most of the Harvard pitching staff, the war did a turnabout for Coach Foyd Stahl by giving him an old nemesis, Bill Judge, to bolster his mound corps, and Judge came through Tuesday to spark the Crimson to a stinging 4-1 victory over the Boston Naval Receiving Station...
This stunning turnabout was official. William Norman, executive secretary of the New Jersey Communist Party, made the statement in the Daily Worker, Manhattan's mouthpiece for the U. S. Communist Party. Cooed he: ". . . Outworn conceptions, if carried over to other historical periods, can prove of incalculable harm to the cause of progress and the chief issue today, the nation's war. Such a misconception continues to exist with regard to Frank Hague and so-called Hagueism...
...Bottleneck. Rommel had met more resistance than he had apparently bargained for. His troops had become exhausted, overextended and overtaxed. The Eighth Army in the south was showing signs of opening its assault. And perhaps there was another explanation for the turnabout: Fredendall's young men had learned their lessons fast. Said Eisenhower of the U.S. troops: "All complacency has now been dropped...
...most amazing turnabout of an unpredictable season, the Crimson basketball team, trailing 32 to 19 at the half and looking for all the world like a dying dog, returned in an indescribably explosive second half to outscrap, outshoot, and outplay an unbelieving Pennsylvania quintet, winning 57 to 56 at the Indoor Athletic Building last night...