Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sponsoring groups, the United States Student Assembly was organized in 1943 to stimulate undergraduate opinion on current issues and to Transform discussion into action on political lines...
Whoever ruled faced real problems. Bolivia's once-rich tin mines now produced only medium-grade ores. The mass of the coca-chewing Indian population was illiterate, and Bolivia's leaders had so far shown neither the vision nor energy to transform them into efficient producers and prospective consumers. One thin ray of hope: a U.S.-financed highway that would join the dry, food-scarce plateau with the verdant eastern plains, perhaps integrate the country's economy...
...Council of Foreign Ministers, Molotov enunciated a new point of departure in Russian foreign policy: an abandonment of the French in their demand for control of the Ruhr and the Saar Basin, and opposition to the dismemberment of Germany unless "the German people express their wish to transform Germany into a federal state." The day after this speech, every newspaper in the French capital blossomed forth with a violent attack on the Soviet, including the organs of the Socialist party and the party of Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos. With this bid for German support and apparent jettisoning...
...three meetings with Marshal Tito, to which I went sincerely . . . but unfortunately we spent our time in mutual accusations. . . . Then Captain Hudson arrived from Britain with a message that I was not to transform the struggle into a fight for the Soviet Union...
...self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...