Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-place finish in last summer's preliminary balloting with a victory, the military men who have ruled Ecuador since 1972 delayed the runoff for more than six months. That allowed the conservatives who opposed Roldós to mount a scare campaign that implied his election would turn Ecuador into a Marxist state like Salvador Allende's Chile...
...Turn-of-the-Century Austrian Culture," Dorrit Cohn...
Stokey refused to say whether there were other candidates left over from the last search that the school might turn to. She added that "the time bind is not as bad as it might seem. Even if Professor Thompson had accepted, he might not have been able to come for next September...
...morning dailies. Then, by combining forces with one of them, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis's Times, Chandler forced the Times's main competitor out of business. Later, with the help of a bribed federal reclamation engineer, Chandler stole the water from a distant Southern California valley in order to turn his thousands of desert acres into subdivisions--thus laying the basis for the Chandler real estate fortune and the Chandler dynasty...
...performed in another. Today the Art Ensemble eschews formal theatrics, but they continue to affect a stage deportment that communicates--their movements can be stylized or abandoned, approaching sacred ceremony one moment and slapstick hokum the next. Jarman is the most consciously animated. During a drum solo he may turn his back and raise his arms as if in supplication or approach a microphone as if to sing but content himself with making faces at the levice. It is appropriate that the most memorable moments from an AEC concert combine musical and extra-musical elements--Bowie wheeling around to release...