Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything that exists in the country. Britain's exhibit is solemn and stately. The main hall resembles Westiminister Abbey, the lights are subdued. There are no crowds and everyone files through in order. The guards at the door seem borrowed from the Buckingham Palace brigade, but they turn their heads and say a word of greeting to an occasional young girl. The hard-working Dutch were ambitious enough to build a model dike with artificial waves and a farm replete with cows, chickens, pigs, a farmer and his family...
However, Mr. Whiteside observed, there have been great changes in American society since then, making such a turn against precedents desirable. Also, the fourteenth amendment now makes the Bill of Rights applicable on the state level. In 1954, in the Brown vs. Topeka School Board case, the Court ruled that segregation "materially impedes education" and in order to belie its precedent legislation gave testimony from sociologists which backed the Court's decision...
...small but noxious minority of landlords who list in the University Housing Registry turn down non-whites as roomers...
...question of France's future is whether de Gaulle's appeal to a modern greatness will turn out to have been realistic or utopian. Only the French can provide the answer...
...Defiant Ones would have been better in the hands of Kazan or Houston, but it does not turn out badly under Kramer's administration. And it will not, at any rate, wow them in Mobile...