Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...W.C.T.U.-Turn. In Bowmanville, Ont., a plebiscite victory over the Drys was won by the Wets, operating out of campaign headquarters on Temperance Street...
Captain Caution. In Cleveland, arrested 13 times in 14 days for speeding (4), passing red lights (2), driving on the wrong side of the street (3), driving against traffic on a one-way street (3), and making an improper turn (1), J. D. Grant confidently told a judge: "Sure, I crash red lights-but I always look both ways...
Beyond its sharp rejection of Khrushchev's proposal to turn West Berlin into a "free city," nobody knew what else the U.S. thought should be done. Just out of the hospital, Secretary Dulles-who carries the U.S. State Department in his hat-took along position papers to study on the plane that bore him to Paris. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd saw a chance, in Germany's difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself...
...diplomatic huffing and puffing on Berlin. It threatens time limits, then withdraws them. It fills the air with windy ultimatums. Last week the Russians said again that unless the Western powers showed themselves ready to discuss the status of Berlin "in a businesslike manner," the U.S.S.R. would turn control of the ground and air corridors to Berlin over to the East Germans, and if an attempt was made to keep the corridors open by force, warned Khrushchev, "this would mean...
...announcement, which was not even repeated on the Soviet radio, was as brusque as it was brief. Just as in the case of the disgraced war hero, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, it failed to say what the general's new duties would be-and Zhukov has yet to turn up in another post...