Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with big labor, the chests and funds have won another notable convert...
...married students who have to find apartments in or near Cambridge. Very few couples are able to secure space in the limited Harvard projects, and private apartments are often expensive, small, and far from the Square. Although most married students can put together some money and imagination to convert their garrets into livable quarters, present University policy is about as make-shift as the apartments themselves...
...spacious stateroom, with its bleached walnut woodwork and grey-green-striped boucle upholstery, the Eisenhowers may fasten themselves with green safety belts into two big green swivel chairs, gazing out at blue sky through green-curtained windows. At night they may retire on the two wide green divans that convert into luxurious three-quarter beds, falling asleep to the strains of recorded symphonic music...
Undergraduate laboratory space is not the problem at present because there is still space in Byerly Hall, he said. But graduate courses could not be held in Byerly. Vanelli pointed out, because costly reconstruction would be necessary to convert the present labs. In addition, Byerly is too far away from the rest of the labs to allow the communication that is essential for research...
...first effect of Communism's claim to liberate mankind and introduce a higher morality is to convert its most devoted adherents into a dark, anonymous army committed as a duty to crime, duplicity and terror. The main spy organization is the GB (Gosudarstvennaya Bezopasnost -State Security), whose list of names reads like alphabet soup, e.g., GPU, NKVD, MGB, since it began life as the CHEKA in 1917. Furthermore, allied and sometimes competing with the GB are the spy apparats of the Red army, the Ministry of Trade and the Communist Party itself. Their strength lies in two things...