Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, the government does seem to be making inroads. To convert a single hamlet from a rating of V even to D requires not only tons of ammunition, miles of barbed wire and nightly counterinsurgency ambushes, but also vast amounts of cement, tin, fertilizer, sweat and blood. The hamlet of Trinh Phu is a case in point. One year ago, government troops entered Trinh Phu for the first time in a decade. To look at pacification in terms of people rather than printouts, TIME Correspondent James Willwerth paid a visit to Trinh Phu, a partially pacified hamlet with...
...Center has made strenuous efforts to correct the distorted and biased reporting and criticism of its activities-by articles and pamphlets, by the Annual Reports, by trying last year to convert disruptions into debates, by a student open house this fall, and by a pamphlet of Questions and Answers about the Center, which is available through the House offices and at 6 Divinity...
...disputed grounds that the fund failed to comply with some complex provisions of a new German securities law. In the last five weeks, the owners of more than $40 million worth of shares asked for their money back. But real estate is not so easy as securities to convert into quick cash. Though Gramco officers boasted that the fund's 20% cash reserve would always enable shareholders to redeem their holdings, the fund simply ran short of money when the theory was put to its first test...
...format in the current McCall's looked familiar. It was a Playboy-style interview of Hugh Hefner, conducted by Writer Gloria Steinem. Gloria, a recent convert to the Women's Liberation movement, was obviously restive in her passive role as interviewer. Exasperated by one of Hefner's answers, she took the offensive: "Don't you understand you've made women objects, more easily exchanged than sports cars? It's like being on the meat hook. There are times when a woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual...
Many of the unemployed specialists are eager to use their skills to help solve some of the nation's housing, pollution or transport problems. But the Government has yet to supply much money to help defense companies convert for peacetime battles, or to assist laid-off specialists in transferring their skills to other areas. Washington could indeed do more by awarding to defense firms some major research contracts in urgent civilian areas or by sponsoring retraining and relocation programs for the overskilled jobless; present training programs are directed almost entirely at the hard-core unemployed. Educated manpower...