Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). A baby is born on-camera in the final scene, but far earlier than that, Jean Gabin, as a kindly rural doctor, and Nicole Courcel, as his first natural-childbirth convert, have given the film warm, memorable appeal...
Ball Bearings & Bureaucracy. It is Peking's dream that the communes, by using men as interchangeable parts, can convert China's peasantry into a part-time industrial proletariat. Already, according to Communist propagandists, the communes have established 1,000.000 new "factories." In fact, most of these factories are simple workshops or smelting furnaces. British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman, one of the few Westerners to get a firsthand look at the communes, reported recently in London's New Statesman...
...Communists should decide to convert their harassment of Quemoy into a no-holds-barred war, the U.S. was ready. Last week the disparate units and individuals on Formosa were reorganized into a unified combat command under Vice Admiral Roland Smoot. Between them, the new Formosa Defense Command and the Seventh Fleet's Task Force 77 could hammer China with a destructive power unequalled in the previous history of warfare. But, barring an almost incredible improvement in supply techniques, the Chinese Communists held Quemoy in a vise so tight that they need never challenge the mighty force that...
...popular series in BBC history (commemorated by Punch in a cartoon of a down-at-the-mouth hillbilly singing: "I've got those Alan-Lomax-ain't-been-around-to-record-me blues"). Now back in the U.S., Lomax would like to "turn the loudspeakers around" and convert Americans from a nation of audiophiles into folk performers. An eminently folksy sound-representing, according to Lomax, the "furthest intrusion of Negro folksong into U.S. pop music: rock 'n' roll...
...driven most reluctantly to these expenditures." To illustrate the U.S. desire for peace, Eaton told Khrushchev about Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who amassed a fortune of $500 million, gave a great deal of it away to promote peace. To make this more meaningful. Eaton paused and asked the translator to convert the $500 million into rubles. Added Eaton: "I would like you to think of a man like Andrew Carnegie as being representative of American industrialists...