Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long time-and getting away with it. As Governor, he had even dared tease Alabama's segregationists. Said he: "No Negro child will be forced to go to school with white children as long as I am Governor of Alabama." During his administration he opposed segregationist plans to convert public schools to private schools, refused to sign oppressive segregation bills, even had a drink in the Governor's mansion with New York's Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell ("They say I drank Scotch and soda with Adam Clayton Powell. That's a lie. Anybody who knows...
...almost two weeks, Sullivan had his barge, the largest boat ever taken through the Boston locks, tied up at the riverwall next to M.I.T. He first threatened to sink the boat in the river, directly in front of the Charles River Yacht Club, then decided to convert it into a home for himself...
...area they occupy. Indeed, the Communists consider guerilla warfare nothing less than a means of social revolution. It is the same Che Guevara, after all, whose guerilla handbook American soldiers now study, who described effective guerillas as ready "to die, not to defend an ideal, but to convert it into reality...
Construction contracts were let last week for Boston's Prudential Center, which will convert a blighted Back Bay railroad yard to the 52-story New England headquarters of the Prudential Insurance Co., a 1,000-room hotel, a 5,800-seat auditorium, gardens, a skating rink and swimming pool. In Washington this week, NASA will unveil the master plan for its man-in-space research center outside Houston, a complex of 49 buildings, training fields and mock-up lunar landscapes for practice landings. Building begins in May, will finish by late...
...Frith, president of the Lampeon , however, that the 'Peon is to convert permanently to a magazine. Frith had no further...