Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first shy before crowds, he became their adored leader, gained the power to select the targets of the mob. to attract more people to join it, to manufacture its slogans, to brandish its raw, brutish power, to intimidate his adversaries. Yet if he were to abate that fury or convert it into a disciplined, responsible community, it would abandon him-the role would seek another hero. In the pungent Arabian Nights image: "He is a man born of a horse who has become the rider of the horse," and he could be unseated...
...teacher, Miss Bess McDonald, with the gift of infectious enthusiasm. She taught physics and chemistry, and young George fell in love with both her and her sciences. He spent long evenings at her house, wrapped in his schoolboy crush, and listened to her attempts to convert him to an unusual religious sect whose name he does not remember. He never hit the sawdust trail, but when Miss McDonald's religious appeals failed, she started persuading him to go to college. His father expected him to take over the farm, but Bess McDonald headed him for the University of Nebraska...
...indecision has become historic, chose exactly the wrong moment and the wrong method to prove that he is a man of action. The President acted like the Communist caricature of the Yankee imperialist. As for Nixon, he has greatly diminished sympathy for his behavior by a vulgar attempt to convert this dismal tour into a presidential campaign trip. He had established his valor in Peru; his insistence on a repeat performance in Venezuela indicates that he was utterly seduced by his press notices, and incapable of recognizing his own limitations...
...recycle his body wastes. Extraction of palatable water, though still not perfected, might be practicable for space flight if the equipment weight could be cut down. One suggestion for maintaining a near-perpetual cycle of food: use the pilot's wastes as food for algae, which will convert them into something edible, also consume carbon dioxide and make oxygen. Another possibility is foreseen by the Navy's Biochemist Dr. Carl Clark, who offers the spaceman a diet of sugar water, enriched with vitamins, minerals and protein factors, and thickened with shredded paper towel. It would taste just...
...Walter O'Malley were really shrewd, he would convert the Coliseum into an outdoor movie house when the Dodgers are out of town. With a built-in 42-ft. screen it should be a natural...