Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major Claud MacBeth Moir's quote concerning the Black Watch show: ''Possibly some old regimental officers might turn in their graves [at the jazzed-up regimental routine], but I hope not. I think they would be proud." Well here's an ex-regimental officer who's neither old (33) nor dead nor proud ! When a single battalion can field 100 entertainers, it's time for the "Auld Forty Twa" to turn in its kilts and be issued leotards. Aside from the war of the American Revolution and Suez, this is the most asinine campaign...
When the learned faculty succeeds in so disorienting young Catholic minds as to turn them against their priest, it can be truly said that Princeton is a center of ''moral and political subversion...
Ties That Bind. Responded Queen Elizabeth: "In Virginia, I was reminded of the early beginnings of the U.S. and of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Here in Washington, so often a focus for the aspirations of the free world, our thoughts turn naturally to the future. The Jamestown Festival commemorates an age of discovery and exploration. There are many indications today that we are at the beginning of a new age of discovery and exploration in the world of human knowledge and technology. Only a short time ago these unexplored areas of human knowledge seemed as impenetrable as the forests...
...Turn the People Loose. Then, almost by accident, Ludwig Erhard got his chance. In June 1948, taking a decision that Erhard as Bizonal economic adviser, and director, had been advocating in memo after memo, Allied authorities suddenly revalued the West Germany currency (one new mark for every ten old ones). Convinced that Germany's recovery could not succeed with monetary reform alone, Erhard waited until one Sunday, when neither German colleagues nor military officials would be around to interfere, and announced on the radio that he had issued a formal decree ending all rationing and price controls at once...
...quarterback, Dick McLaughlin will be counted on heavily to turn in a performance up to the standards he set against Columbia. In that contest, he appeared to come into his own both on offense and defense and to gain confidence with each play...