Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national forests, administered by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, are also one of the few Government operations to turn a profit. In fiscal 1960 the Forest Service will spend $116,575,800 on its forests-including $38 million for roads and trails-but the forests will take in $129 million from timber sales, grazing fees and other items ranging down to rentals of 18,000 private summer homes on national forest land. The national forests' land, timber and forage alone are appraised at $7 billion...
...urge to turn back the clock is as strong among revolutionaries as reactionaries. Saddled wih the chaos and corruption of 14 years of freedom, many Indonesians yearn for the good old days of 1945, when life was violent but simple and all that had to be done was win independence from the Dutch...
...hail of bullets, Ovnand and Major Buis fell and died within minutes. Captain Howard Boston of Blairsburg, Iowa was seriously wounded, and two Vietnamese guards were killed. Trapped in a crossfire, all six might have died had not Major Jack Hellet of Baton Rouge leaped across the room to turn out the lights-and had not one of the terrorists who tried to throw a homemade bomb into the room miscalculated and blown himself up instead. Within minutes Vietnamese troops arrived, but the rest of the assassins had already fled...
...balloting Egyptians and Syrians elected 39,364 local councillors. These councillors would become members of Nasser's National Union, which, he insisted, is "not a single-party system but the framework within which the revolution now beginning will take place." Local councillors will choose provincial councillors, who in turn will elect a General Council for the whole United Arab Republic. From this council President Nasser himself will select a new National Assembly to draft the constitution for his "socialist, democratic and cooperative society...
...this ogreish creature a kind of innocence that may be one of the clues to his triumphs and his failures." Innocence because, as Rovere sees it, he never seriously believed in his own charges, his own cause, so that even his hatred was pretense. During Committee hearings, he could turn on his rage at will and stage a tantrum walkout just in time to get to the men's room. "McCarthy, though a demon himself, was not a man possessed by demons . . . He lacked the most necessary and awesome of demagogic gifts-a belief in the sacredness...