Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always made his terms clear. The idol of France at one of the crises in its life, he had served an ultimatum upon his countrymen: if they wanted him to take part again in the game of French politics, they must change the rules. Specifically, they must turn their backs on France's prewar system of parliamentary supremacy and accept a chief executive empowered to make policy without constant interference from the National Assembly. When, after World War II, a majority of Frenchmen opted for the old rules, De Gaulle retired to the sidelines and sat there...
First, as a kind of warmup, on rabble-rousers' charges that the U.S. was plotting to turn Algeria over to the rebel F.L.N.,* crowds broke down the doors of the USIA offices on Rue Michelet and scattered books and periodicals in the street. Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove...
...which Founder Joseph Smith produced as revelation in upstate New York in 1829. In Smith's history of the first inhabitants of America, some of the white-skinned, "delightsome" members of the Israelite tribe of Lehi grow quarrelsome and sinful after arriving in America from Israel. Result: they turn dark-skinned and "loathsome," thereby producing the American Indians. A patriarch named Hagoth builds a boat, sails away into the Pacific and is never heard of again. Many Mormons presume that Hagoth's descendants are today's Pacific islanders...
...Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began to fold. By the time the Russians got to their first match in Chicago's International Amphitheater they should have been thoroughly bushed. But they were still more than...
...strawberry-sweet juice and joy of life with Pop and Ma Larkin that truly seduces Charlie. One day it is Pop piloting a real, if secondhand, Rolls-Royce into the yard and grandly announcing, "Ourn." Other times, it is Ma wolfing fish and chips and baying "Turn up the contrast!" toward the ever-playing...