Word: transformed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy task to transform the cold, cruel look of Soviet Communism without altering its substance, and Khrushchev and Bulganin were obviously tuckered out from the months of effort it had required. Last week both left Moscow for a vacation; the Party boss went to Yalta and the Premier to Sochi in the Caucasus...
While he expands his personal power, Nasser is coming closer to the day next January when he has promised to transform his military rule into representative government and give Egyptians a parliament. Not even Gamal Nasser himself seems certain that he will keep that promise. "Throughout my life," he confesses, "I have had faith in militarism." The army is the only sector of power he so far has found it possible to trust, and even there he fears that unless he can provide more equipment, morale will fall and officers will weaken to subversion from the Communist left...
...dancing is provided by the company's newest ballerina, leggy young (22) Svetlana Beriosova. She is less technically accomplished than some of the older soloists, but last week, dancing Fonteyn's role of Princess Aurora for only the fifth time, she showed the special quality that can transform a dance from a series of steps into a magical whole...
...collegians do not expect, in a few months, to transform their charges into fervent churchgoers. Their long-range purpose: "To show people that the gospel is concerned with every phase of life-to give them a reason to live...
...taken more than one such accident to transform Karpovich from the Moscow soldier-bureaucrat to the Harvard professor. Remaining in Washington in 1917, he and his fellow orphaned diplomats waited five years for the Soviet regime to collapse and then finally closed up their embassy. In 1922 Karpovich moved to New York, where he lived for several years as a writer and translator. This literary existence in expatriate circles might have continued indefinitely, but in 1927 occurred the second great accident of Karpovich's life: Harvard College's only instructor in Russian History suddenly left Cambridge in the middle...