Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense of their rock-'n'-roll idols upon the slightest criticism from adults will doubtless be able to dream up some excuse for the deplorable antics of our latest good-will ambassador, Jerry Lee Lewis. I wonder how many of them, after reading your story, bothered to turn to the Education section and read how Pat Boone, a really good singer, can also win fame (and a degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia) and still be a nice guy with a spotless personal life...
...Wyzanski barely jumped away from the splash of Goldfine's friendly money. Last November, while he patiently sorted out the complex Boston Port operations, Wyzanski spent an evening with his wife at one of her fund-raising benefits, this one for the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Who should turn up-and make a $1,000 contribution "in honor of Mrs. Wyzanski"-but Bernard and Charlotte Goldfine, whom the Wyzanskis had never met socially. With an air of innocent enthusiasm, Mrs. Goldfine bustled over to say that her husband had made the gift "because he admires your wife." Outraged, Wyzanski...
...first was to settle the affair among the Lebanese themselves. Last week, pressed to replace his ineffectual army commander with one who would turn all guns on the rebels, President Chamoun argued that for Lebanon's brigade-size army to take the offensive would be to risk a defeat "which would be fatal to the morale of the army and the people...
...more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled by CBS on the fanciest terms ever offered a TV writer-$10,000 apiece for three Playhouse 90 scripts, 40% ownership in CBS's forthcoming science fiction series titled Twilight Zone, plus freedom, to turn out four scenarios...
...knows that something is going on, what with him out every night and coming home high all the time. The kids know, too, but they never let on to Pa, and Ma never really lets on to herself. "If you keep calm," she likes to say, "everything will turn out for the best...