Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matters. But when Willard assassinates Kurtz, we still do not know why the Green Beret went mad, the genesis of his large cult or even the identity of the many gruesome corpses and severed heads that lie strewn about his domain. Nor do we know why Willard, a sudden convert to Kurtz's undefined cause, goes ahead and kills him. By withholding this information, Coppola gives up his final chance to confront the issues his film initially intended to explore. The journey into America's Viet Nam madness-not to mention the journey into Willard...
...political atmosphere surrounding the school was pro-Vichy and of course antiSemitic. Young Pavel/Paul-Henri languished, sickened and nearly died, but in the end survived, in a masquerade that became a reality. He found in the Virgin a kind of substitute for his mother, he says, and became a wholehearted convert...
Modifying an engine to run on ethanol requires only simple carburetor adjustments. One recent convert is Manhattan cabby William Bly, who last month logged more than 1,000 miles on alcohol from a still built by The Mother Earth News, a North Carolina counterculture magazine. Says he: "The car ran beautifully-no knocks, no stalls, no nothing...
...great pressure to 900° F. As the coal decomposes, it releases oil and gas. Another extraction method, which adds hydrogen to coal that is heated under pressure, will be tested at a small, experimental plant operated by several oil companies in Catlettsburg, Ky. It should be able to convert 600 tons of coal into 1,800 bbl. of oil a day. At a DOE-funded plant in Fort Lewis, Wash., Gulf Oil since 1974 has been testing yet another process called "solvent refined coal," which uses chemicals to remove impurities from the synthetic...
Rent controls have discouraged new building. While rents on newly let apartments have soared, the levy on occupied premises has been held artificially low. Worried about future controls, landlords have stopped building. Many are breaking the controls by converting rental apartments to co-ops or condominiums and selling out for a quick profit. This year landlords will convert and sell up to 130,000 apartments, vs. only...