Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn, Americans are outgrowing the compulsion to lecture Indians endlessly and to demand profuse gratitude for favors given. Wrote an Indian editor: "Americans have conducted themselves with an unusual dignity over India's breach with China. They have successfully resisted the temptation of crowing-at least in public-over the fulfillment of their earlier warnings that we were playing with fire in wooing the Chinese. What Americans had not been able to achieve by the expenditure of millions of dollars -seen and unseen-has been accomplished for them at one stroke by Chinese folly...
...mirage of the 17th century Taj Mahal; in New Delhi, he will sleep in another reminder of India's past-the gigantic pink sandstone President's House, which used to be the palace of the British Viceroy. Today's India prefers different monuments: bustling factories that turn out locomotives and toothbrushes, diesel engines and radio sets. For all its look of the past, the ambitious young republic is forging ahead in atomic energy, quadrupling its steel capacity in a few years' time, rushing to completion a vast network of irrigation canals and hydroelectric plants...
...Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton's action and reaction theories are right. Everything we did produced...
...very remarkable human being," he wrote. "His influence on the world's thinking is bound to be important . . . He has forced theologians to view their ideas in the new perspective of evolution, and scientists to see the spiritual implications of their knowledge . . . The religiously-minded can no longer turn their backs upon the natural world . . . nor can the materialistically-minded deny importance to spiritual experience and religious feeling...
Early in the year, the pro champion Baltimore Colts lolled on the laurels of success. With a rock-hard defense turned butter-soft, their record at mid-season was an embarrassing 4-3, and only the slingshot passes of Quarterback Johnny Unitas saved the Colts from a worse showing. Not until recent weeks did the Colts turn frisky again, climb to a first-place tie in the Western Conference with the faltering San Francisco Forty-Niners...