Word: transforms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRINCIPLE that must be strictly observed if the current student strike is not to transform itself into a disastrous and tragic war between students and Faculty is that there occur no disruptions of classes...
...Vacationland. Bonn's staunch support of Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967 helped transform public attitudes and stimulate the sale of German consumer goods. "We are a pragmatic people," explains a senior Israeli trade official. "We cannot spit in their faces forever." The breakthrough can be traced to several years before the Middle East war, when it was revealed that Germany had been secretly supplying Israel with millions of dollars worth of arms. With much embarrassment, Bonn stopped these shipments rather than face political reprisals by Arab nations, particularly their implied threats to recognize East Germany...
...Corporation is also engaged in an attack on the people of Cambridge by kicking them out of their homes in order to transform the city into a military and research center for imperialism. We also demand that the following egregious actions be stopped...
South of the Tien Shan on the Chinese side lies the Taklamakan Desert and the lake of Lop Nor, home of the Chinese nuclear tests. Beginning about 1960, the Peking government set out to transform the desert into a fertile area. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, party cadres, middle-school graduates and intellectuals thought to be in need of "reeducation" have been sent to Sinkiang to work for the cause, and their efforts have had some results. But for the most part, Sinkiang remains a wasteland, even less developed than the Soviet lands to the north...
These men, mostly young and self-made, have little regard for established rules or customs. They are reshaping business in a manner that deeply affects not only owners and managers but millions of stockholders and employees as well. In time, their expanding takeovers of hundreds of companies could transform the entire structure of the U.S. economy. Already, they have stirred intense debate among businessmen and Government officials alike: Are their actions a threat or a boon to U.S. business...