Word: turning
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...himself, the President said he received intelligence that gun-toting masked extremists had used his face as target practice. SBY, as the President is commonly known in Indonesia, also said that radicals had vowed that "there would be a revolution if SBY wins" and that "they wished to turn Indonesia into [a theocracy like] Iran." Although, the President did not explicitly link such intelligence with the July 17 terror attacks, the implication was clear: the men who wanted to hurt Indonesia also wanted to damage the moderate ex-general who is leading the world's most-populous Muslim-majority democracy...
EAST HADDAM, Conn. — In 1958, lyricist Alan Jay Lerner ’40 suggested to composer Frederick Loewe that they turn T.H. White’s novel about King Arthur, The Once and Future King, into a musical. “You must be crazy,” Loewe replied, “That king was a cuckold.” (A “cuckhold” is a fogeyish term for an adulteress’s husband.) Arthur had lost his wife, Guenevere, to his best friend, Lancelot. “Who the hell cares...
...mind, this is like an inner-city slum where there are criminal gangs terrorizing the people and cops that are on the take. We need to clean up these communities. We need to help the people of this region, and I think we'll see this situation start to turn around...
...misconduct, including that of an NYPD officer who was prosecuted for shoving a bicycle rider in Times Square. Are officers learning to behave better? I don't know if it's dawned on them yet, but they certainly should be. The NYPD is like a battleship. You don't turn it around very quickly...
...those who worked with him said that behind his controlled on-air persona was an intense determination to be the best. "Walter has an almost messianic turn of mind. He feels so much responsibility; he feels that if he doesn't get it right, nobody else is going to get it right," one of his writers told the Washington Post on Cronkite's retirement in 1981. "And that is the reason he is number one. It comes across. People know that Walter Cronkite would never lie to them. Never. Because it is his religion...