Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real estate broker friend persuades him to convert it into something more appropriate to the neighborhood. He stocks his shelves with volumes of pornographic fantasies and the apparatus to make them real-everything from vibrators to leather harnesses. The place is renamed Sex Shop, with every letter over the door spelled out in light bulbs that burn brightly even at noon. Browsing, except by minors, is encouraged...
...Arturo Alessandri, who was also stymied by a conservative Congress, was deposed and exiled to Italy by a junta. The next few years saw a series of military coups and countercoups. After a period of dictatorial rule under Colonel Carlos Ibanez degenerated into economic chaos, Alessandri, by then a convert to the conservatives, was re-elected in 1932. Since then, the armed forces have generally been ruled by the theory that as long as the President kept to the constitution they would respect his authority...
JOHN CONNALLY, 56. The former Treasury Secretary is admired by Nixon for his air of self-confidence and political shrewdness. Main drawbacks: Big John is a convert to the G.O.P. and is closely identified with oil interests as well as Texas wheeler-dealers...
...Dottie West, as the music for the current Coca-Cola commercial. A month ago, with a few alterations in the lyric, it also was released as Dottie West's latest RCA recording. As such, it is a sign of a growing trend in the country music field to convert jingles into singles. Country music is not only becoming unabashedly commercial, as purists frequently complain; now commercials are becoming country music...
...three or four in the afternoon few but the most dedicated reporters and the most dedicated radicals were still around, and so as a putative member of the first category I occupied myself by listening to the putative members of the second, who were running around trying to convert one another. Finally three of the most dedicated missionaries--one an unaffiliated rad; one from the Socialist Workers Party, which is the oldest Trotskyist organization in the United States; and one from Progressive Labor, which took over SDS a few years back and which used to be Maoist...