Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this might look like a hinted threat by Tito to turn to the West. The West, however, kept its fingers crossed. The latest issue of the Cominform journal, for the first time since the Tito fission in June, had no article attacking Tito...
...collectors sat in a cafe on St. Wenceslaus Square and compared the grim past with the glorious present. "The worker's lot has improved enormously, of course," said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
Said Hutchins: "I think you are teachers. I did not say you were good teachers . . . The argument that you must be good or you wouldn't have readers is ... like telling the disgusted radio listener that he can turn to three other stations and hear . . . programs just as bad ... If the purpose of a university is to have a lot of students, then the university that has the most is the best. If the purpose of a newspaper is to make a lot of money, then the newspaper that makes the most is the best. But I suggest that...
...Gulliver's Travels, Swift describes the "struldbrugs," the unhappy old men & women who could not die but were "uncapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection . . . The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories...
...Athletic Council is a first-year organization at Harvard, designed to provide intramural athletic competition for freshmen. It recently concluded a touch football season and will turn to basketball next week. Initial league games will start Monday. Meanwhile, practice tilts continue tonight at Hemenway...