Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot. The singer, Shug Avery (Margaret Avery), takes more of a liking to Celie than to the boorish Mister. This torch singer with a heart of gold teaches Celie how to have pride and how to stand up for herself. Gradually, under Shug's tutelage, Celie begins to initiate convert acts of household terrorism like spitting into drinks of water and lemonade. Shug also enjoys special privileges in the House of Mister-including getting the mail-and thus Celie is able to receive a long-awaited letter from her sister...
...friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The President in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts. Now I discover (that) the people who recommended the parliamentary form of government are the ones complaining about this...
Levinson said the show went on as planned yesterday despite the wind and rain because it was part of a celebration commemorating the birthday of Dorothy Day, the deceased founder of the singers' parent organization, the Catholic Worker. Day, a journalist, communist, and convert to Catholicism, established the organization 50 years ago in New York City, where a leftwing newspaper still bears its name...
...cool way. It is too early to tell whether, because of it, they will change their basic policy toward the terror organizations. They have created a monster, but they got a lot of advantages out of it. With this and other instruments of destabilization and subversion, they managed to convert their continental power into a worldwide power. In little more than ten years, they have extended their reach from South Yemen to Angola, from Nicaragua to Ethiopia...
...things began to change. Schanberg began to bring the two New Yorks together. He began to wonder why large real-estate developers (many of whom advertise heavily in the Times) were getting tax abatements for building luxury housing. He began to question the tactics that landlords were using to convert their rental stock into condominiums. He wondered about the mayor's policy towards the growing homeless population...