Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took half a century to transform Kent State from an obscure teachers college into the second largest university in Ohio, with 21,000 students and an impressive array of modern buildings on its main campus. But it took less than ten terrifying seconds last week to convert the traditionally conformist campus into a bloodstained symbol of the rising student rebellion against the Nixon Administration and the war in Southeast Asia. When National Guardsmen fired indiscriminately into a crowd of unarmed civilians, killing four students, the bullets wounded the nation...
...Quaker-and they included many affluent young adults and teenagers. Much central guidance was supplied by the Washington-based New Mobilization Committee, which coordinates the activities of many groups opposed to the war in Viet Nam. New Mobe's avowed aims are to 1) end war production, 2) convert factories to peacetime work without layoffs and 3) gain worker control of U.S. industry...
...Yardlings' Friday night game against Brown, the Crimson repeatedly lost the ball to a tight Bruin zone defense. Throughout the half, the Crimson failed to connect from underneath the basket and was unable to convert important free throws. Brown led at the half...
...trial thus ended with the same total hostility and mutual incomprehension that stained it from the start, and it left basic legal questions unresolved (see box, page 10). Both sides confirmed each other's prejudices. If the defendants and their lawyers seemed determined to provoke Judge Hoffman and convert the courtroom into an arena for political confrontation, the prosecution and the bench often came across as heavyhanded, harsh enforcers of questionable statutes...
...conventional Southerner, who gazes past the azaleas and well-trimmed lawns of his Tallahassee mansion at the nation's rebellious blacks with a lack of concern. His now-repudiated racist speech in 1948 could even conceivably have been an automatic acquiescence to a regional political ritual. He helped convert a Tallahassee public golf course threatened with integration in 1956 into a private club, once bought land that carried a racially restrictive deed, and served as a director of a housing corporation for a Florida State University fraternity that excluded blacks. All those acts only conformed to the unfortunate facts...