Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politician De Gasperi adroitly stayed out of this blame throwing, but was not neglected by the blame throwers. Pella's supporters say that De Gasperi let them down in January when Pella tried to transform his caretaker government into a more permanent one. Now that the party was in trouble, many others who once sang De Gasperi's praises criticized him. They blamed the election setbacks on De Gasperi's electoral-reform law, which he himself now concedes to have been a mistake. They acknowledged the greatness of De Gasperi's 1948 triumph and admired...
Admittedly, these restrictions may slow committee action, and, in rare cases, subject investigators to longwinded protests. Put into effect, however, they will not only protect the witness, but also transform reckless inquisition into constructive investigation...
...Along a 40-mile stretch of the new road from Managua to Tamarindo, there is not a single town, village or house-but the road ends at a valuable salt flat where Tacho plans to process enough salt for the whole country. His diversified interests have helped transform Nicaragua from a one-crop (coffee) country into an exporter of rice, sesame, cotton, sugar, corn, cattle and lumber. His operations in cotton raising and ginning, sugar-milling, icemaking, distilling, textiles, lumber and cattle provide work for more than 20,000 Nicaraguans. To get his produce to world markets, he has organized...
...least ten years, it has been evident that almost no powerful interest group in the nation could transform its interests group into legislation without encroaching on the programs of other groups. Unions and management; New England and Southern industry; civil rights advocates and Dixiecrats; farmers and protectionists--engaging each other in Congress and the White House, they have battled to a stalemate. During Truman's years, he spoke up for Negro, union, and slum-dwelling interests. Their opposing numbers were entrenched in Congress. Truman proposed the same Fair Deal program every year and he got nowhere...
...talk of forward and mobile "islands of resistance" or "centers of strength" as big as a division or even a corps. The islands, air-supplied, would be capable of holding against strong enemy forces, and of blasting their way through very strong enemy defenses. Thus NATO forces could transform their real-estate-guarding function into something more positive...