Word: converting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effort to make the unsalable salable, the Surplus Property Board was frantically trying to convert cartridge belts into flyswatters." snowshoes into cocktail tables and tourniquets into book straps. But however big the turnover, it would not be big enough. The SPB still listed for sale some horse-drawn Army ambulances, vintage...
...prosperous neighbor (Morris Carnovsky) give him bigger and better ideas. His somewhat selfish daughter (Margaret O'Brien) loves a calf named Elizabeth, but her neighbor's misfortune inspires her to give up Elizabeth-an act which dissolves the whole countryside in similar generosity. One glowing convert is a city-bred schoolteacher (Frances Gifford), who not only learns to love the rural life that first appalled her with its narrowness but even comes to accept the rather expansive view that one must be tolerant toward intolerance...
They had stubborn leadership, personified by a veteran tactician of civil war and a veteran of the Comintern, tall, lumbering Mao Tse-tung, who in 1939 preached: "An important part of our political line is armed struggle . . . [to] convert an imperialistic war [so-called by all Communists, before the invasion of Russia] into a revolutionary civil...
...receiver with a "klystron," "lighthouse" or other oscillating tube, used to convert the microwave echo to a lower radio frequency so that it can be amplified...
...they were "industrious and frugall," they had nearly foundered. In America they would certainly have starved without a cache of Indian corn, which they providentially and promptly appropriated. "Sure it was God's good providence," wrote Bradford. When the corn was used up, their first Indian friend and convert, Squanto, providentially appeared. Captured by British sailors some years earlier, Squanto had lived in London and spoke perfect English. He had returned to America six months before the Mayflower. Squanto taught the Pilgrims how to plant their corn in small, properly spaced hills and how to fertilize each hill with...