Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NORTH SHORE YACHT CLUB on the landlocked 44-mile-long Salton Sea, once a part of the Gulf of California, has 2,300 dues-paying members, and a 2,600-ft. landing strip, from which visitors may transform themselves into sea dogs and start trolling within minutes of arrival for such specialized game fish as corvina (which go to 20 Ibs.) and sargo. Since Salton Sea is 234 ft. below sea level, speed enthusiasts also like to test the theory that engines run better and boats go faster because the air is denser there...
Noble Rhetoric. The expressions of regret seemed genuine enough-despite rumors of disagreement between Moscoso and the Johnson Administration. For two and a half years, Moscoso was the apostle of the Alianza, the man charged with President Kennedy's sweeping declaration "to transform the 1960s into an historic decade of democratic progress." Noble rhetoric, but the performance fell far short of the mark. A start was made on building low-cost houses, schools, roads, clinics and water systems. But Moscoso was frustrated by bureaucracy that delayed loan approvals, and many Latin Americans grew impatient waiting for instant progress...
...Pennsylvania Railroad decided to abandon its freight and commuter ferry across the bay as too expensive and too slow. The whole Delmarva Peninsula took fright. So did the Virginia legislature, which appointed a committee to study the problem. Norfolk, which was in the midst of an effort to transform itself into something better than a sleazy shore-leave resort for 70,000 sailors, gave the project enthusiastic support. It took time. But by 1960, the bridge commission, headed by Eastern Shore Businessman Lucius Kellam, had floated a $200 million bond issue, and construction began...
...little girls are not detectives. They are an enchanting pair of screen newcomers, Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth, aged 17 and 15, who ebulliently transform what might have been a routine Gotham sex farce into a king-size sleeper. Merrie demonstrates that the child of a broken home has every advantage, while Tippy makes light of being simultaneously unwanted, filthy rich, and psychoanalyzed: "Dr. Greentree gets so mad if I don't dream...
Even the best efforts of a fine cast fail to transform the criticially poor script. Miss De Carlo is nice to look at, but seems as silly as her lines. Alan Mowbray, who plays her father, is so bored he's boring. And Irving Jacobson, a strange combination of Eddie Cantor and Mr. Magoo, as Mr. Foreman, is as cliched a first generation imigrant as you'll ever want...