Word: convert
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After the war. when Greece tried to grab off large chunks of defeated Turkey, Gursel joined the forces of the late great Kemal Ataturk, helped to expel the Greek armies and to convert Turkey from an Islamic sultanate to a secular republic...
Jesuit Edmund Campion was "cruelly distent" on the rack, and his fingernails were pulled out before he was executed. For permitting Mass to be said in her private chapel. Catholic Convert Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death and, according to a witness, "was in dying one-quarter of an hour. A sharp stone as much as a man's fist was put under her back; upon her was laid the quantity of seven or eight hundredweight at the least, which breaking her ribs caused them to burst through her skin.'' Altogether, from 1585 to 1680, about...
Canal & Tunnels. Last week, after a month-long site study (using some of Rommel's leftover contour maps and aerial photographs), nine West German scientists and engineers settled down to write detailed reports on a daring project to convert the Qattara into a mammoth new power project. First suggested by the British more than 30 years ago, the idea is to dig a ditch from the Mediterranean to within nine miles of the Depression. Thence a tunnel would be bored under the rocky escarpment that rises along the Depression's northern rim. Emerging from the tunnel, the water...
Time was when all a woman needed was to slip on a pair of slacks and her husband's old shirt to play the casual. But with slacks and casual clothes now designed even for evening wear, the idea is to convert "casual" into a fashionable word no longer synonymous with "sloppy" and "convenient...
...dissecting marine organisms. He sent a constant stream of reports and papers to learned societies back home, and at 26, he had made enough of an impression to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Thus he began his life task, which was, as he saw it, to "convert the Christian Heathen of these islands to the true faith," i.e., science...