Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...checkered history of cost overruns and technical troubles. A design competition for a new carrier was won by McDonnell Douglas with a plane subsequently called the C-17. The Pentagon thus faced three options: to develop the C-17 (whose cost was never made public), to buy and convert new and used 747s for considerably less money (the new planes would cost $72 million each), or to build 50 of Lockheed's modernized C-5Bs (at a cost of $118 million each). Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger decided that the most sensible choice, both militarily and financially...
Opposing C-D is the Gordon Group, a partnership composed mainly of Hungarian immigrants who have become successful in the construction business. They want to restore the building and convert it into a tourist attraction, including museums of early Hollywood. The partners see their manifest destiny as Americans in saving a piece of old Hollywood. Bill Gordon, sixtyish with sad, deep-set eyes, fled Hungary in 1956, crossing the Ferto Lake into Austria with his family in a rubber raft. He wrote his sister-in-law, then living in Los Angeles, asking, "How far do you live from Hollywood?" Gordon...
...David Livingstone did not go to Africa in 1841 to explore the Dark Continent but to save souls in darkness. The conversion of native tribes was his task, specifically the Bakwena. Their chief, Sechele, became Livingstone's one and only convert, a pivotal event and, to Livingstone's missionary spirit, a crushing rebuke, around which British Playwright David Pownall's tragicomic drama revolves...
...tribal skeptic. If Livingstone's God is potent, why do the rains not come? Barred from Sechele's bed, she slithers back into it like a serpent of old Nile. When he reads from the Scriptures, Sechele's eyes are radiant. But is he a convert, or a con man more anxious for British guns than for God's grace? As for Livingstone, is not a single believer a joy to heaven? Or is he trying to amass a head count of natives for personal glory? Pownall raises these questions without really answering them...
Next fall will not mark the first time that sophomores have been assigned to convert lounges and storage rooms because housing officials underestimated the number of residents who would return to a given House the next year. But the problem does seem to have reached epidemic proportions...