Word: converted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fallen City. After the surrender of the city, Red Cross authorities had tried to convert the Hotel Le Phnom into a protected international zone. But at 5 p.m. on the day of the takeover, Khmer Rouge troops ordered the hotel evacuated within 30 minutes. Hundreds of foreigners fled to the French embassy compound; most of them remained there for 13 days, while fires and shooting broke out sporadically in the fallen city...
With the Glomar Explorer being so roundly denounced for its expensive original purpose, I can think of a perfectly useful adaptation. Convert it into a supervacuum for oil spills off the California coast-and let offshore drilling...
India was made especially vulnerable. When oil price tripled, it was more profitable for oil companies to convert their product into gasoline for American cars than to convert it into fertilizer for India. Fertilizer capacity in that country was cut back by 40 per cent overnight. This, with an unexpected drought, and the increase of grain prices in the West, caused massive starvation. "Meanwhile," observes Senator Hatfield, "various oil producing nations are flaring 4.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas each year, ten times more than the U.S. uses annually for fertilizer production, and enough to double current world fertilizer...
...brother, both refugees and no older than 14, sat alone. She wept openly, and the boy held her hand throughout the service. "Amid great stress and suffering," intoned the Anglican priest, "we come to a celebration of life-baptism." Then he sprinkled holy water on an adult Vietnamese convert and christened him Michael...
...step in his personal life, marrying Soong Meiling, a delicately beautiful, Wellesley-educated younger sister of Sun Yat-sen's widow. In doing so he put aside his first wife, the mother of his son and heir, Taiwan's current Premier Chiang Ching-kuo; he became a convert to Christianity before the wedding...