Word: converting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cried: "We would be slobbering idiots if we did not carry out the nuclear tests." As a result of its test program, said Khrushchev, the Soviet Union had perfected 50-and 100-megaton bombs-and some that were even bigger. What was more, Khrushchev boasted that Russia could readily convert the rockets that orbited its two astronauts to deliver the U.S.S.R.'s thermonuclear superkillers. Said he: "Not a single place on earth can consider itself safe from them...
...withdraw military installations from countries bordering the U.S.S.R., proclaim that this country will not be the first to use nuclear weapons in war, refrain from giving any additional nations or alliances atomic weapons, invite inspection of its Project Vela underground tests, promote the creation of a U.N. Disarmament Agency, convert the germ warfare research center in Maryland into a U.N. world health center, urge U.N. inspection of nuclear facilities in Israel and Egypt, and repeal the Connally Reservation giving the U.S. the right to decide if international disputes involving the U.S. shall be heard in the U.N. World Court...
...sensational papers, has beefed up the austere Sunday Times without impairing its stateliness. Under Thomson, the Sunday Times circulation has risen nearly 140,000 to 1,022.913-sending it far ahead of Britain's other big quality Sunday paper, the Observer (727,964). Eventually, Thomson intends to convert the Sunday Time?, into something resembling the hefty Sunday papers that hit U.S. front porches. Early next year, for example, the paper will add a 4O-page, four-color illustrated magazine...
...boss's daughter turns out to be pregnant, and the boss himself announces that he will arrive in Berlin within 24 hours. Problem: in that one little old puckered-up day that he has left, can Cagney 1) spring the groom from his East German cell, and 2) convert him into a proper sort of son-in-law for Old King Coke...
...Crimson. Coach Cooney Weiland's team plays tight defensive hockey. In practice this week they have been checking hard and clearing the puck effectively in an effort to set up their fast-skating forwards. In the Bowdoin game, the Crimson showed an ability to capitalize on opportunities and to convert quick accurate passes into goals...