Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line was drawn through the Indus valley, and the water squabble began. Prime Minister Nehru protested that Pakistan demanded practically all the canal flow, while vast areas of India were "simply thirsting and panting for water." Pakistan cried that India's huge irrigation and water-development schemes would turn millions of Pakistani acres into a dust bowl. When India abruptly cut off the waters of one canal system for a month, a Pakistani leader threatened invasion, shouted: "Better a quick, glorious death than a slow, lingering...
...professional educator," Dean Simpson said last week. "But I do know an educated man when I see one, and I shall try to see that we turn out that kind of student-namely, one free of cant and humbug. The ordinary American boy who will only make a million in later life, the ordinary girl who wants a husband as well as a diploma, are as welcome here as the Quiz...
...weirdest fads of the '20s and '30s. Dredged from the bottom of the Depression, the dancers were "horses" rather than humans, swung on their feet for days, weeks and months-with an eleven-minute break every hour. The idea, recalls June, was to turn the dancers into animals, make them near-insensate or "squirrely...
...There are now only three hospitals for addicts in the U.S.: two federal, at Lexington, Ky., and Fort Worth, and one run by New York City for victims under 21. †Main reason most addicts turn to crime is that illicit drugs cost several hundred times the legal price, and the "habit" may set them back $500 a week...
...chain was forged in the turn-of-the-century war of the copper kings, when the company used its newspapers as ironfisted, copperplated propaganda sheets in its successful fight for supremacy. In the '20s, when the company began to fret that its papers were furthering its image as a monopolist, it toned them down, tried to shape the news more by selecting than slanting or denouncing. Events harmful to Anaconda were either ignored or downplayed ; the papers even began to avoid all local controversies...