Word: transforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...droughts in the 1870s or the floods and famines of the 1920s, when millions starved. This is, rather, a rationed, regimented hunger that signifies more than China's traditional struggle for survival. It symbolizes the miscarriage of the most massive social experiment ever undertaken-the Communist attempt to transform China overnight from the most impoverished country in the world into a major industrial
...focused on everything but the most crucial questions in our society. How rare it was when leafing through the professional journals, that we saw discussed the problems of physical and mental survival in our age." If NUT can continue discussing them intelligently and openly, it will help transform the students into a loosely defined interest grouping, capable of direct influence on the social, political and intellectual structure of this country. This effort deserves far more attention than the headline-seeking of some self-interested student politicoes...
Death Strip. What mostly worried West Berlin officials was a drastic population drain that could transform the city-now one of Europe's leading cultural and industrial centers-into a ghost town. Forsaken by tourists and conventioneers, the Berlin Hilton already stands half empty. Since the week before the Wall went up, the number of citizens pulling out of West Berlin has quadrupled, from an average 75 daily to some 300. House-moving companies are booked for weeks, often months, in advance. To stay or not to stay has become the No. 1 topic at every Berlin dinner table...
...this plan should not be adopted too hastily, for a tragic consequence of the present farm program has been the shriveling of alternatives. Perhaps the country should retain a specified number of surplus farmers. All-out nuclear war would transform the United States into a primitive agrarian society. Thus, to insure the existence of a maximum number of self-sufficient food producers, maintenance of currently superfluous small farmers might be desirable. Moreover, it would probably be wise to establish food storage depots on the periphery of large cities. Surplus commodities stored in this manner (as emergency stockpiles) would...
Seldom had Belgrade seen more bustle and toil. Wrecking crews felled whole rows of shabby old tenements as if scything corn. Gangs labored round the clock to transform gaping foundations into spruce little parks. Everywhere, the police rounded up known drunks, idlers and beggars and sent them off to the countryside for the duration of the Conference of Unaligned Nations...