Word: u-turn
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...regard to free discussion, I do not believe that any country in the world has a more honorable record than the U.S. [But its] reversal today will be very hard to explain ... It would almost look as though the U.S. had made up its mind to do a quick U-turn in a one-way street. What the consequences will be I cannot imagine...
Driver Dennis Walsh made a U-turn, parked the armored truck by a fire hydrant in front of Rope's drugstore, locked the doors on a treasure of three-quarters of a million dollars, and joined the two guards at the soda counter inside. Leaving a truck unguarded is strictly against company rules, but the trio had safely sneaked coffee in Danvers many times before...
...drove in," we said and did a fast U-turn. He was still scratching his head when he dropped out of sight. Which brings us to the question of why Virginia was penalized three times for delaying the game. Just think of yourself in quarterback McCary's brogans during those huddles. When the boys asked him what the next play was, he couldn't very well come out and commit himself in such an environment of lucid confusion...
...Hudson Bay, in a maneuver called "Operation Musk-Ox." In cabbed, high-powered, 4½-ton snowmobiles,* Canadian-designed for the invasion of Norway, they would plow northward through long Arctic nights and through temperatures 50° or more below zero. Three thousand miles later, after a gigantic U-turn on the roof of the earth (see map), "Operation Musk-Ox" would arrive at Edmonton. The only breaks in 81 days of isolation would be the visits of R.C.A.F. supply planes bringing fuel and food...
...morning last week Orlovsky left about 7 a. m., Penn at his usual hour. Across the street, a blue sedan containing two men, which had been waiting about an hour, made a U-turn, drew up beside him as he waddled along the sidewalk. Out stepped a man with a pistol and the morning quiet of the street was shattered by six explosions. Penn, the left side of his body torn up by five slugs, fell to the pavement screaming, "Get me a doctor! Get me a doctor...