Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stevens workers turn away from unionizatior because their vision of J.P. Stevens is one of the small town textile mill, organizing picnics, handing out holiday bonuses, paternally providing jobs, money and security. Ironically, their gasping and wheezing testimonies of Stevens unjustices are dominated by reflections of their mill town's golden past. The reader is frustrated by their reluctance to act, almost as much as by Conway's failure to articulate the feelings that have keep Stevens workers from shaping a better life...
...evil wizard. He is stock in his mannerisms and gestures, unseasoned on the stage. While Laura Rogerson and Ralph Zito shine in minor roles, John Smith as the hulking, rassling Marvin Hudgens is as shallow as one would expect. Smith should learn that it is not enough to turn red in the face before admitting to lust in his heart...
...forced monks and nuns to copulate and then perform miracles to save themselves. And the Chinese used guns, grenades and missiles on an antiquated country with little more than swords and branches at its disposal for defense. And yet the Tibetans, steeped in centuries of compassion, could not now turn against other men, no matter how barbarous. In the face of imminent destruction, Tibetans returned Chinese fire with passive resistance and an undaunted faith in the justice of circumstance...
...aircraft can determine the combat capability of the Soviet brigade on the island, it is the SR-71-the fastest, highest-flying and most elusive manned aircraft in existence. So fast does the sophisticated spy plane move that when a pilot starts a 180° turn over Cuba, he completes it halfway to Bermuda. By emitting ECM, or electronic countermeasure radio frequency signals, the Blackbird can efface its image from watching radar screens...
...turn, by 1985 Renault will get a 22.5% interest in a company that, after teetering on the edge of disaster on and off for 25 years, is staging a modest rally, mainly because of the popularity of its reliable Jeep. In the nine months ended June 30, while Chrysler was sinking deeper into debt, AMC made a profit of $73.3 million, compared with $10.7 million in the same period a year earlier...