Word: u-turn
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...black screamed as a yellow Toyota passed an intersection. The driver spun his wheels frantically in an oil slick before escaping the approaching mob. Recalled white Motorist Jim Davis: "The police had put up a roadblock. I couldn't get around it. I went into a U-turn, but my car stalled and they came running at me. I heard them scream, 'Honky!' I got the car into gear and knocked them out of the way. I heard gunfire. I saw a police officer and I screamed, 'What should I do?' He said...
...Washington may have given Chrysler a reprieve and preserved jobs for its 137,000 employees in an election year, the action may be a dangerous example for a system in which the right to fail is as enshrined as the right to succeed. Moreover, if Chrysler cannot make a U-turn and start generating the profits needed to pay back its loans, the U.S. taxpayer could get stuck with a portion of the $1.5 billion tab. Assessing the action of his colleagues, Senator Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who is a leading advocate of keeping government out of the private...
...falling apart." Moore is unconvinced. He heads west again to get a better look at a cloud bank that seems to contradict the forecast. "Look at that thing!" Moore yells. "It's going up! Hell yes, it's going up!" He throws the pickup into a fast U-turn. He turns on the AM radio just in time to hear an unmistakable crackle. "If I didn't know better," Moore shouts, "I'd say that was lightning!" As the truck speeds through Cheyenne, the skies grow darker...
...Cambridge, Tsongas toured all the offices but again encountered bad luck: the mayor was not in. The only bright spot during this stop came on the way to Somerville, when a policeman generously did not pull over the campaign car after it made an illegal U-turn in front...
...Exchange late last week. In two incredible days of financial hebephrenia, the cavernous trading room echoed with delirious shouts and yells so loud that it was hard for brokers to talk to one another. After 15 months of steadily slumping prices, the market had taken a sudden and unexpected U-turn, sending short sellers, who make profits by betting on continued declines in stock prices, running for cover...