Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge-to convert our good words into good deeds-in a new alliance for progress-to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house...
Thus, although history may rate Dwight Eisenhower highly for his achievements, it must also take into account his failures-not the least of which was his inability to convert his immense personal popularity into vote-getting appeal for his party and its principles...
...some unwise proposals come out of the Convention, the electorate will have a year to simmer down and strike them out in the referendum. These provisions make very small the possibility that a Convention would turn the government into a domineering glass-and-steel monolith, and it could well convert it into a structure suitable to the 20th century...
...subcommittee" that one of the two boys whose names she had submitted as her escorts was unacceptable. Reason: though a member of the Episcopal Church, the boy was "Jewish." The club's board of governors later confirmed the decision. The girl canceled her debut. The boy, a recent convert, was reported "so hurt that he refused to go to church on Christmas Sunday...
Marbled Meat. Thus, says Physiologist Keys, the big cut in reducing U.S. fat intake should come in the popular saturated fats which, although more expensive, have become a bigger and bigger part of the American diet. Restaurants take pride in heavily marbled meat. Most margarine manufacturers "convert liquid fats into partly saturated solids by "hydrogenating" them-that is, by forcing hydrogen atoms onto the liquid fat molecules. Dairy farmers are paid more for milk with high butterfat content. Keys is a milk drinker himself-but only of modified skim milk that contains a maximum of 2% butterfat...