Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert K. Keeton, professor of Law, attacked the GOP's policies as "a succession of pat remedies abandoned day by day." "They want to convert the White House into a gigantic darkroom for developing negatives," he said...
...personally involved, you will never be able to do anything for the many." One entry explains his approach to international conflicts: "Jesus sat at meat with publicans and sinners: he consorted with harlots. Did he do this to obtain their votes? Or did he think that, perhaps, he could convert them by such 'appeasements'? Or was his humanity rich and deep enough to make contact, even in them, with that in human nature which is common to all men, indestructible, and upon which the future has to be built...
Indeed, Johnson's obvious vanity about gaining a national consensus and his reluctance to risk engagement with Goldwater in a "great debate" of conflicting philosophies seems to give credence to the belief that he merely wants the warmth of national approval and won't try to convert it into energetic legislation...
...result: a versatile, sure-fire way to convert every conventionally rigid fabric in the world into stuff that stretched up and down, back and forth, to and fro, and never once ran out of breadth. Accordingly, a whole new galaxy of stretch fabric appeared, all developed around a spandex core, ranging from brocade to burlap, taffeta to twill. Not all of them cling to the skin, but the stretch qualities let them give when and where they have...
...advertising, seeks no transients, is eleven blocks away from the nearest interstate highway and buys most of its meat from a packing plant in Birmingham (though the plant gets the meat from outside Alabama). If Title II forced Ollie's to serve Negroes, said Smith, the result "would convert the commerce clause into a general welfare power under which Congress could encroach upon personal liberty and property to a degree never heretofore imagined...