Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors is reaching "alarming proportions," and called for "an immediate and unprecedented increase." It urged medical schools whose enrollments have remained static to figure out ways of admitting more students "in the light of national demand," also called on the five schools of osteopathy that are still independent to convert into regular medical schools...
...view, industrial growth often conflicts with esthetic achievement, and pollutes not only the atmosphere but also the human psyche, because consumers and employees surrender to the goals of the organization. He sermonizes that men should convert higher productivity into more leisure instead of more goods; they should work less and enjoy more, concentrate on designing beautiful cities instead of clogging them with more and more cars...
...freshet of his verse. His poems were blocked with a deliberate opaque quality, as if he feared that clarity were a sign of mediocrity. Still, he seemed stimulated by restraint. He emerged from Kenyon summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and class valedictorian. He also emerged a Roman Catholic convert and a husband...
...listen to Everett Dirksen, 1984 is just around the corner. "If the effects of this decision are not remedied," declaimed the Senate minority leader last week, the result may be "a centralized, all-powerful, leviathan Federal Government, clothed with power to convert citizens into subjects, and gradually shear away the freedoms they once knew...
...routing out the fakers is that the gulled buyer will rarely swear out a complaint, often chooses to auction off his mistakes or donate them to charitable organizations as a tax write-off. Says one Los Angeles investigator: "How many con games are there that have the power to convert the victims into accomplices after they have found out that they have been...