Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will not stop unless and until they recognize that there exists unbreakable resistance. ... I would greatly prefer to say that we are safe in this country and in this hemisphere from outside danger. But I am firmly convinced that what is taking place today . . . is a relentless attempt to transform the civilized world . . . into a world in which lawlessness, violence and force will reign supreme. . . . The one and only sure way for our nation to avoid being drawn into serious trouble or actual war ... is for our people to become thoroughly conscious of the possibilities of danger, to make...
...multi-colored balloons, will be thrown open to the class of '43 and their 200 female guests and for one night will take on the appearance of the Rainbow Room. Refreshments will be served in the east end of the dining room, while potted palms and bird baths will transform the rotunda into a tropical garden...
...leadership, growing old, happiness. Like most busy but unoriginal literary minds he has an aptitude for quoting his superiors; Shaw, Valery and Stendhal say the best things in his book. Maurois's ability to make sentences bow from the waist, his flair for "gallic" phrasing of sincere platitudes transform the "golden mean" into gilt-edged mediocrity...
...their government, or does $9,000,000,000 [the U. S. budget total] a year run our people? . . . That is the challenge posed to America by the New Deal. . . . The national administration which will succeed this administration next January . . . must again release the energy of private enterprise to transform unemployment into employment, relief into jobs. . . . That is the step no New Deal administration can ever take, because it would be turning its back on all the theories of these seven lean years...