Word: u-turn
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...three men made a U-turn, sped down Mass Ave. in the wrong direction, and the chase...
STOP. KEEP RIGHT. NO U-TURN. The signs along U.S. highways seem to speak in a stern and unalterable language of command. But the fact is that they are constantly subject to testing and revision; and now, after more than six years of psychological and engineering research, the U.S. Department of Transportation is unveiling a whole new set of them. Some of the new signs are already up, but three years will pass before all of them are installed...
...light-tackle technique. Not quite. The palm goes to an Aussie named Peter Boadby. Fishing for bait fish off Brisbane, Boadby cast his line and accidently hooked a passing great white shark near the tail. Blissfully unaware that it had been hooked, the shark swam on, then made a U-turn and headed back, obviously figuring to do a little bait fishing itself. Anxious to retrieve his line, Boadby leaned over the gunwale, gaffed the shark and trussed it to his boat-thereupon technically setting a light-tackle record that is likely to remain unchallenged for quite some time. Boadby...
...been one of Britain's most fiercely independent automakers. Known around his Coventry headquarters as the "Headmaster" for his autocratic rule, he has scoffed at the industry-wide merger trend, maintained that Jaguar would not go on the block "in my lifetime." Last week he made a surprising U-turn: after two years of quiet negotiations, Sir William and British Motor Corp. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that B.M.C. will buy out Jaguar in a $51 million stock transfer deal...
Local residents have discovered that the only way to turn off the beltway onto Route 355 is by heading in the opposite direction and making a U-turn into the oncoming traffic. Not only is this uncommonly hazardous, but during rush hours it chokes off one traffic lane with cars waiting (drivers fuming) to make the turn...