Word: turned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admit. As soon as the English eased the fierce penal laws in the 1800s, it made its quiet peace with them, and by the 1916 rebellion was a definite anti-revolutionary force. In the '20s, it excommunicated Eamon de Valera for his part in the bloodshed, only to turn up shortly thereafter in full partnership with...
...wing preacher's attack on Fred J. Cook, a frequent contributor to the liberal weekly magazine, The Nation. When Cook's request for a chance to reply was refused, he took his case to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC ordered the station to give Cook a turn at the mike, went on to point out that under its "fairness doctrine," broadcasters must 1) offer free time to people personally attacked on the air on a controversial issue of public importance, and 2) in cases where stations editorially endorse or oppose a candidate, give opponents a chance...
...nurses bear particularly heavy emotional burdens. The girls show a tough and cold exterior-an attitude quickly acquired in hospital service. But often it cloaks deep feelings of anger and frustration at their inability to slow the inevitable or at least relieve their patients' pain. The patients, in turn, become even more despondent. Confronted by apparently diffident nurses, they begin to complain that they are lied to about their condition, treated with contempt and given inadequate attention...
...picture of azaleas, presented to her as 1968 Queen of the Norfolk Azalea Festival. Pat's taste is seen in the private sitting room and long hall. She has kept the Early American masterworks acquired by Jacqueline Kennedy and earlier tenants, but she particularly likes Impressionists and turn-of-the-century Americans. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has lent the White House Mary Cassatt's Portrait of a Young Girl, Ernest Lawson's Harlem River, one Sargent and two Monets...
...International Labor Organization, which had first invited him to Geneva. In an impassioned 4,500-word, 40-minute speech, Paul gave his listeners a sympathetic, near-encyclopedic appraisal of the problems of the workingman. He quoted New Left Philosopher Herbert Marcuse, lamenting that technology was threatening to turn man into a creature of "one dimension," and warmly praised French Socialist Albert Thomas, who founded the ILO half a century ago. The rebellion of youth, said the Pontiff, "resounds like a signal of suffering and an appeal for justice" against a technological world that has no worthwhile place for them...