Word: turnabout
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When the fight began, there was little in action or tactics to suggest the startling turnabout to come. Beneath a full moon in Kinshasa at 4 a.m. (the better for prime-time closed-circuit TV viewing in the U.S.), Ali led a crowd of almost 60,000 Zairians in a chant of "Ali boma ye!" (Ali, kill him) before he began to dance round the ring, dodging Foreman's powerful swings. It was just as the experts and even the boxers themselves had predicted: the bear was chasing...
...others, and leads her to the comfortable isolation in which "Everything's softer...There aren't such edges." But Brewster plays this dreamy, solipsistic rejuvenation as a social instinct, a feeling of warmth toward the others, rather than within herself. To get from this point to her turnabout at the climax of the play requires a rapid and somewhat abrupt transition...
...trade unions, which only the week before were issuing dire warnings about the results of a Tory victory, also did something of a turnabout by offering soothing, tranquilizing words to a public that is still jittery about their growing power. Jack Jones, the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and the most powerful...
Even the Judiciary Committee's Edward Hutchinson made his turnabout official. "I feel that I have been deceived," he said, declaring that he would vote for impeachment "with a heavy heart." Arriving in Washington from Mississippi, Lott also confirmed his reversal on impeachment. He had reacted to the new evidence, he said...
There was no doubting the effectiveness of the Judiciary Committee's televised performance. The latest Harris poll shows overwhelming approval of the committee's conduct, with 65% of the people approving the way it went about its task and only 29% opposing. This is a marked turnabout from the previous poll, which showed a disapproval rate of 48% to 36%. Even in the South the new reading shows 59% of the people in support of the committee. That performance inevitably influenced how Americans feel about the verdict the committee reached. One Harris measure was that people who voted...