Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pavlov's Dog. At Dave Beck's side was a brown leather briefcase bulging with the personal financial records that the committee had asked him to bring. Ordered to turn them over, the witness unfolded a slip of white paper with the seven lines of large type that he had said earlier would "encompass the whole atmosphere of everything...
...nuclear missiles without fear of retaliation in kind. Neither the U.S. nor Russia will be equipped with a long-range nuclear missile force-in-being for some years, and both sides know it. But the imminent arrival of U.S. nuclear missiles at British and other NATO bases represents a turn of the screw that tightens still further the ring of containment around Russia, from Murmansk in the north to satellite bases as far south as the Bulgarian border...
...themselves, the French want no kings ruling over them. The last Emperor of France was tossed off the throne 86 years ago. Today unthroned royalty from other lands are a franc a dozen in the haunts of Paris' international set. The businesslike, democratic sovereigns of northern Europe frequently turn up in town without causing a ripple. But Parisians in all walks of life have been in a dither for weeks over next week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Day laborers and priestesses of haute couture, florists and jewelers, architects and restaurateurs, waiters and street sweepers...
Romney, in turn, scotched reports that Wolfson wants A.M.C. to drop its big-car lines, sell off its Rambler line to Chrysler. Instead, he emphasized, A.M.C. will go ahead with tooling and bring out a complete line of new designs for 1958. In addition, A.M.C. will "pursue a dynamic program of acquisition and further diversification," with the help of Wolfson, an expert in acquisitions...
...jackpot. Midwesterner Jack Jordan has written a book-club selection in his spare time while working at the old family foundry (Bissell himself had worked at the old family pajama factory). When a couple of brash young producers summon him to New York and ask him to turn the book into a play, he feels like an impostor. But with the help of a shrewd director who strongly resembles George Abbott. Jack Jordan attains the rube's satisfaction of seeing the city slickers lined up all around the block trying to get ducats for his play. Show...