Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship-shaped platform, resolutely pointing to the future, General Douglas MacArthur, who had promised to return and did, would speak. Silver-haired Paul McNutt, the retiring U.S. High Commissioner and the first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippine Republic, would read the formal proclamation from President Truman which would transform the Commonwealth into a Republic...
Last week TIME'S London Bureau cabled: "It is an undisguised fact that Britain is on the verge of an Anglo-Jewish war in Palestine." Westminster's lobbies rang with the muttered warnings and fears of pro-Zionist Labor members. Everything was piling up to transform what had been an Arab-Jewish conflict into an Anglo-Jewish fight...
...were the weakest parts of his story, and their removal is not responsible for the animated skeleton that MGM, has produced. Rather it is the inexplicable changes that have been made in the structure of the novel, changes that confuse and obscure the basic thread of love, changes that transform a dynamic series of events into an almost comically catastrophic succession of messes...
...plague and damnation to the impractical intellectuals who impatiently castigate the United Nations and mournfully declaim that no good can come from so impotent an organization. The myopic hopefuls who would overnight transform an intensely nationalistic world into a blissful brotherhood of man are sadly ignorant of the political facts of life...
...effort to transform what Norman Thomas called "academic wondering" into concrete action, the Law School Forum devoted its third meeting Friday evening in New Lecture Hall to a discussion of "Full Employment in a Free Society...