Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rural people's communes, the first of which appeared in Honan province last April, sometimes have as many as 300,000 members, in most cases absorb the whole population of a county-peasants, traders, students, officials and professional men. Upon "volunteering" to join a commune, members turn over to it virtually all their private property, including homes, garden plots and heavy tools. Once in the commune, members cease to have a regular trade, become all-purpose production units. In Honan's pilot Sputnik Commune (which occupies an area two-thirds the size of Long Island), 43,000 members...
...League administrators are happy. With uniform admission standards, they turn up with teams of roughly equal strength that beat each other with unpredictable irregularity, making up in excitement what they may lack in consistent skill. They even produce a few topflight football players. The likes of Harvard's Tackle Bob ("Shag") Shaunessy, Brown...
...than many of Hollywood's handsome heroes. As a private citizen, he had certainly been no worse. But in paying its last respects to a man it genuinely liked-he had died in Spain on the set of his latest movie, Solomon and Sheba-Hollywood somehow had to turn the occasion into a supercolossal production. It brought to grisly life the mordant funeral fantasies of Evelyn Waugh or Nathanael West...
Such standards, critics charge, may turn the party business into a serious threat to the theater. Charities generally book a play because it has name actors, and producers are apt to hire stars for insurance, whether they fit the role or not. For partygoers, the play is far from the thing. They are apt to turn up high from preparty banquets; men do business in the aisles, wives gossip from row to row. Mary Martin once complained: "Their attitude is: 'I've paid my 35 bucks, now show...
...very high speed, the energy transfer may be as low as 10%. One explanation of this behavior is based on the relativistic principle that objects moving at extremely high speed become foreshortened in the direction of their motion. Particles that are essentially spheres at low speed are thought to turn into thin disks as they closely approach the speed of light. When two of these speeding disks collide broadside on, they pass through each other in so short a time that they cannot exchange much energy. Dr. Schein's balloon-borne plates may confirm or demolish this theory...