Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into two brief years, thereby built a wall of resentment. He presided over the election that put A.D.'s Rómulo Gallegos, a noted novelist, into the presidency in 1948. Reports that A.D. planned to de-emphasize army influence by arming an irregular band of stalwarts helped turn the military against it. In 1948 a coup by the resentful military sent Betancourt into exile once more...
...disease of the large bowel that kept Secretary John Foster Dulles bedfast in Walter Reed Army Hospital last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was considered rare until the turn of the century. Since then, with X-ray techniques constantly improving, it has become clear that diverticulosis is one of the commonest disorders of the aging, though often it gives no trouble. But diverticulitis severe enough to send the victim to a hospital has become a routine diagnosis...
...columnists. On Sunday the Times and NBC sponsored an hourlong, live-television news show that carried Timesmen's reports from New York, Washington and Europe. The Spanish-language El Diario began running two pages of news in English, doubled its press run to 140,000, had to turn away advertising. The National Enquirer, weekly sex-and-gossip sheet, put out an extra issue with some news between the covers...
...Industrial spending on new plants and equipment began to turn up, said the Commerce Department, but new plant expenditures for the third and fourth quarters will be a little less than expected, will pick up only about 2% in the first quarter...
...took a $30-a-week job at Macy's after graduation, at 31 was made head of Macy's huge, inexpensive ready-to-wear department. He next took a turn at advertising, but soon found it was not his kind of selling: "I thought a lot of what went on was just air." When he met Lingan Warren, the autocratic genius who had built Safeway from nothing into a huge chain, he made such a good impression that Warren asked him to go to California. Magowan had worked up to be Warren's administrative assistant when...