Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steady, now: one delicate shudder, then to business. Water with the pill? Fine. Here we are in Hanover, N.H., where the Dartmouth College campus quickens to the approach of the fall term and a few of the weaker maple trees are beginning to turn orange. The occasion is the Fourth International Conference on Computers and-what is this?-the Humanities. Is the conference title a self-contradiction, like "fresh-frozen" or "Young Republican"? The observer, a humanist in a dry season, resolutely programs himself to suppress his real attitude toward computers, which is a feeling of smugness and superiority masking...
Just when the tide looked as though it might turn, St. John returned to lead a final Harvard scoring drive that ate up 282 precious ticks of the clock...
...chemical PBB, a poisonous fire retardant, which was not clearly labeled, was mixed in with cattle feed in 1973--and was eventually eaten by 90 per cent of Michigan. Sometimes chemicals become part of what we eat through negligence, as when the pilots of dust-cropping planes forgot to turn off their sprayers when they flew over houses, rivers and schools in Maine, Arizona, Oregon and several other states this spring...
...these improvements have sometimes been detrimental to what most Americans would consider inviolable political liberties. When the revolution took a turn to the left in the early sixties, the government changed the motto on the Cuban centavo from "Country of Liberty" to "Country or Death." Certainly, Cubans have lost at least several liberties; the freedom to travel to non-socialist countries, for example. This restriction was implemented in part for ideological effect, but mainly for the more practical reason that it is impossible to exchange Cuban currency in the West. The government also prohibits emigration of citizens...
...have a strong incentive to coordinate their response, since the PLO does not want a split that would allow Jordan to reestablish its authority over a part of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, and Jordan does not want a split that would allow the PLO to turn the radical elments of the Palestinian people, in the West Bank and outside, against the regime of King Hussein...