Word: transformation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armand in his romantic quest, some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom...
...UNITED IN HOPE: "Hope is a glorious 'must' for a church under pressure and persecution." But in times when such bracing persecution is replaced by good will, the "Church's spiritual integrity is often threatened. Therefore the Church is to be cleansed from all that would transform [it] into a society for the preservation and promotion of Christianity" and of whatever would transform Christianity itself into a mere "philosophy and ideology...
HUGE FARM AREA will be created along Colorado River in southwestern Arizona, where Real Estateman Stanley W. Barton made deal with Interior Department to transform 67,000 parched acres of Indian reservation into desert garden. In history's biggest lease of Indian lands for agricultural development, Barton will spend about $28 million to complete an irrigating system, also develop industrial and residential sites. Reservation's 1,400 Indians will get jobs, and much improved land will revert to them in 20 to 25 years...
...Actors use their own personality more than any other craftsmen," he added, "but the truly great actors are those who can go beyond their own personalities, who can transmute and transform them...
...Development Fund drawing its raw materials from the Southeast Asian countries, its capital goods and technology from Japan, and most of its financing from the U.S. The fund, Kishi is expected to argue, will relieve pressure in Japan for greater Red China trade. Moreover, with U.S. backing, it would transform a peaceful and renascent Japan into the political leader of free Asia...