Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every now and then, someone in Washington "speaks out of turn." Immediately, the rest of Washington is agog and remains so until it has decided whether the outspoken one is a fool, a publicity seeker, a self-important ass or a wise and forthright fellow...
Papa Benito bounced in turn upon a large white horse. Prancing and bouncing, and cheered by loud Fascist "Ala-ala-ala-las!" the Prime Minister and his Big-Eyed Babe rode once around Ancient Rome, out the Appian Way a piece, back...
Uruguay. The smallest South American country is among the most bounteous, salubrious and progressive. Perhaps no other land is so well watered and ideally suited to sheep and cattle raising. Prosperity is focused upon a relatively few rich ranchers, and they in turn concentrate their whole wealth in Montevideo...
...elms that covered what was once the road to the west bordered by country houses now wave over whirring traffic. The house at the head of Longfellow Park peeps from behind its screen of shrubbery as it did seventy years ago, and those who pass the Craigie House turn and look, or do not turn and pass, knowing vaguely that a poet once lived there...
These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...