Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billboard, and his thought-of cancellation seemed to confirm the suspicions of discouraged Midwest Republicans that Ike does not care much about the party's peril in this year's congressional elections. After the complaints deluged the White House, Ike changed his mind, laid plans to turn up at Chicago in time to deliver a 15-or 20-minute speech, head back to Washington the next morning...
...first thing I see is the sun. It always rises in the east, and it is undeniably red." Landlord Groza formed a left-wing peasants' movement known as the Plowmen's Front. He piled up wartime profits under the German occupation, but he shrewdly calculated the turn of the tide, got himself jailed by the Nazis before the Reds marched in from the east...
...during the Antarctic spring (Oct.-Nov.). This is fearfully difficult country, with two high, parallel mountain ranges, the Theron Range and the Shackleton Range, looming blackly above the snow. The ice between them is torn into great crevasses. Sometimes vertical ice cliffs rise like stone walls, and level plains turn out to be bogs of deep, soft snow...
...from M.I.T. (where he developed the now accepted electrochemical theory of corrosion), Researcher Whitney set up the country's first industrial-research lab in a Schenectady barn, spurred on an alert crew of scientists (including William D. Coolidge, Irving Langmuir) to develop the modern electric-light bulb and turn out a wide assortment of major electronic discoveries...
Another high-up source, who asked that his name not be used, liked the idea of three-symbolism but took a slightly different train of thought. "Eight is one less than nine, and nine in turn is three times three. Many of the ancients felt that nine was the perfect number," he explained, "and of course the three also ties in nicely with other suggestions...