Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Union is merely an outgrowth of the "Third Force" movement. Edouard Herriot and Leon Blum, the leaders of France's drive for a European parliament, are also prophets of the Third Force-the middle man. The British fear that men like Herriot and Blum would try to turn Western Union from a militant anti-Communist federation into a bloc which would pursue the illusion of neutrality between Russia and the West...
...stairway and massed outside the courtroom. When Reimann appeared they howled an ovation. "Do your best, Max!" said a pink, pudgy hausfrau: "Just the way it was with Hitler-first he was sentenced to jail, then he became our Führer. I wonder if this won't turn out the same...
...bowl of popcorn to illustrate his working methods to reporters. "I begin with something like this," he explained, delicately selecting a kernel and gazing at it through tortoise-shell glasses. "I see just what expression it takes and develop that. Now this little bump here looks like a branch. Turn it around and we have a head, or a flower. But I don't want a head, a branch or a flower, so I mold it a bit"-giving the kernel a cruel squeeze-"or I may throw it away." And with an expression of critical disdain he threw...
Mistaken as well as correct answers can be detected by Dyer's appliance. If a desperate student marked all answer blanks the machine, when set for counting errors, would turn in a score of 400 for every hundred questions...
Presently the philosophy Department will investigate me to find out what I have learned in Philosophy 75 these last four months. Intensive preparation for this event leaves me no time to write a column, so I shall turn over this space to the members of the House Un-American Activities Committee, who are fortunate enough not to be subjected to investigations of any sort themselves. The following quotations I dredge up from a pamphlet called "Communism and Education, the third in a series on the Communist conspiracy and its influences in this country as a whole on religion, on education...