Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aggressive aspirations of the chief partners within the Anglo-American bloc [which] clash with each other at every turn...
Pakistan's Governor General Khwaja Nazimuddin and Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan graciously wired congratulations and promoted the Amir to lieutenant general in Pakistan's army. It was the Amir's turn to be gracious. As a climax to his fabulous shindig, he announced the first popular reform in the state's history: a 25-member state assembly. The Amir would pick nine members, leaving 16 to be chosen by a complicated system of indirect election...
Then it was Loyola's turn for a while. With Forward Ralph Klaerich doing most of their scoring, they brought the game to a 47-47 tie with less than a minute to go. On the bench, the Dons' 33-year-old coach, Pete Newell, chewed on a crumpled towel...
Most missionaries would disagree. When they make their choice, missionaries coolly look the risks in the eye. After that, they seldom turn-for any reason-against the people to whom they have dedicated their lives. In 1900, hundreds of Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries were killed by the fanatically nationalist Boxers of China; as a result the influence of Christianity became more pervasive than it had ever been in the land of Confucius. Throughout the Orient in the past ten years, death has come to many missionaries as it came last week to Missionary Underwood...
...dressed in blue serge, talked in knots instead of miles per hour. On long overwater flights they flew by celestial navigation. While they piled up experience on the short Caribbean hops, their boss, with vast energy, got ready to send them across the oceans. He worked with planemakers to turn out the flying boats he needed, sent Charles A. Lindbergh, a consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west lining up the exclusive landing franchises that paved the way for mail contracts. In island chains and jungles...