Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepting Adams' explanations, the President, whether he liked it or not, automatically went bail for Adams' faith in Textile and Real Estate Millionaire Goldfine, Adams' friend and benefactor. That done, the Administration was stuck with whatever Goldfine might really turn out to be. What Bernard Goldfine turned out to be in his testimony last week before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (see Investigations) was a cheap and devious character-a fast man with a buck, whether to manipulate the financial fortunes of his numerous mills and real estate holdings or to distribute gifts to public...
...Neither law nor custom bars flying 48-star flags or even 13-star flags. In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson gave the U.S. Navy responsibility for planning changes in flag design. President Eisenhower will probably follow Wilson's executive order, hand the problem to the Navy, which in turn may appoint a design commission...
...black lily," she crooned, "is the flower of love. Shall I give this flower to you?" Then she presented the surprised prince with a real black lily "to symbolize our hope that he will soon marry a beautiful girl as his princess." The girl who spoke out of turn was only expressing a wish that was agitating almost every reader of Japan's excited press...
...lean, Fanfani's Cabinet struck a "perfect balance." Absent from the government coalition were the Liberals, Italy's nearest equivalent to a free-enterprise party. Sighed Liberal Leader Giuseppe Malagodi: "Every nation in Europe seems to have tried the socialist adventure. Now it is Italy's turn...
Viruses are known to cause many animal tumors, have been shown to be bafflingly versatile-both infectious and noninfectious in turn, depending upon a variety of complex technical factors. Stanley noted many oddities about viruses: man has coursing through his body many kinds that were unknown a few years ago; they can mutate to new strains that cause different disease symptoms...