Word: turned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Young Republican Club elections took a colorful turn last night as David F. Peterson '59 announced he would re-enter the race for president of the club. Peterson accused his opponent Alec B. Dawson '59, of corrupt vote-get-ting methods...
...movie deals with an innocent country girl who finds she is pregnant by a pilot. The pilot is off at war, and his nasty bourgeois parents refuse to acknowledge the child. Then the pilot is reported dead; from this point, things take an upward turn, and it develops that the pilot is not dead after all. Pilot and parents come to ask for the girl's hand and reparer, if memory serves, notre mauvaise action. Everything turns out better than anyone would have dared dream...
...tight-banked boards of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, it is quite a trick just to find running room. Spikes slice close to bare shanks in the opening sprint for the pole; elbows have a habit of splaying wide when the pack gangs up on a turn. And when the pack contains men like Hungary's crack Istvan Rozsavolgyi, holder of three world records for outdoor middle-distance running, the problem is even more complicated. For while Ron runs to win and only as fast as he has to, Rozsy runs against the clock. He knows from wind...
...done what Talbot has done," says one of Talbot's colleagues. "We shot our bolts producing an Olympic swimming team. Talbot was a nobody in those days. So he put all his enthusiasm and zeal into making champions of the Konradses. Now it's Talbot's turn for glory...
...shrewd investor who "would rise from a sick-bed and travel across France, if he saw a good profit to be made." Château Cirey in Champagne was tumbledown; to restore it, Voltaire put his credit at the disposal of Emilie's husband-who, in turn, put his wife and Château at the disposal of Voltaire. History does not show a more foursquare example of the eternal triangle...