Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what about the problems of enlarging the simple and practical idea of local police protection to a worldwide scale? Is it a simple matter to convert the idea of a police force with squad cars and motorcycles into the idea of a police force with battleships and bombers? Actually mankind has been pondering the basic problem for a long time and knows a great deal about it both in principle and practice...
...conversion of Sir Oliver Lodge also moved Sir Max Beerbohm to draw one of his funniest imaginary confrontations, in which Convert Lodge and Sir Edwin Ray Lankester, a British skeptic about spiritualism, look at each other and wonder at an ectoplasmic enigma...
...belted N.M.U. harder or more consistently than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
...Like any convert, Eddie Rickenbacker recommends the treatment for others. "Let our great leaders, including our President and Mr. Churchill, visit Russia and Mr. Stalin [whom Churchill, but not Rickenbacker, has met], . . . We should not be too captious if Stalin has not seen fit to attend the conferences. ... He has little time for anything but immediate results...
...parching heat of the Ukrainian summer neared its end, and the air was laden with the promise of rain. Soon downpours would convert the fat, black soil into paste...