Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even for the fleet est, and people died in rivers that...
...completing her autobiography last April, Dame Edith Sitwell was asked how she felt. "Dying, but apart from that I'm all right," she replied. A little later, she remarked that as a Roman Catholic (she became a convert in 1955), "I know I ought not to dread death, but I am so conceited that I simply cannot imagine how the world would get on without me." In London's St. Thomas Hospital last week, at 77, Edith Sitwell died of a heart attack, thus putting the world to the test...
...your approach differs from the distortion practiced by some hypothetical extremist writing that "The American left was united against Senator Goldwater. Prominent left wing groups such as the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were especially vehement. The ways in which the left is trying to convert America to a Communist state are ..." That hypothetical extremist would have precisely as good, and as bad, a case as you do; after all, the Communist Party, which is on the left, is trying to convert America to a Communist state, just as some "Radical Rightist," and possibly some right wing organizations...
Died. Joseph Morrell Dodge, 74, Detroit banker and a top U.S. economic troubleshooter; of complications following a heart attack; in Detroit. An unbending advocate of sound money and tight credit, Joe Dodge came to the attention of the White House in the early 1940s after he managed to convert a Depression casualty into the prosperous Detroit Bank & Trust Co. (present assets: $1.2 billion). Called upon to try his fiscal therapy on the inflation-plagued economies of postwar Germany and Japan, he became one of the chief architects of their phenomenal booms by counseling devalued currency and balanced budgets. Then...
...most common skiing accident is fracture of the ankle or lower leg, and strains at the knee. Dr. Manson therefore reiterates the importance of having good equipment: an efficient safety binding will convert a stress capable of breaking a bone into a simple strain, and a stress capable of producing a strain into nothing but a loosened...