Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franco aspires to be a tinpot Dictator. Lee declined during the Civil War and after, to convert the almost fanatical worship of his people, into political power for himself...
...Author Crow became a Confucian becomes clearer after reading Master Kung, his biography of Confucius. What attracted him to Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...
...getting them into the U. S. On the first, Adolf Hitler last week was surprisingly polite. Said he in a speech at Konigsberg: 'I can only hope and expect that the other world, which has such deep sympathy for these criminals, will at least be generous enough to convert this sympathy into practical aid. We, on our part, are ready to put all these criminals at the disposal of these countries, for all I care, even on luxury ships." Rudest German comment on the plan came from the Schwarze Korps, official organ of the Secret Police: "We still offer...
...river," as natives call such biannual shark drives, baffled Father Laplante completely, baffled as well those who saw his film. Even the missionary, who has spent ten years trying to implant French Catholicism in Fiji, was ready to admit possibility of something preternatural. He remembered having tried to convert a certain native. The man demurred; he was already a Methodist. When the tribe combed the river, the dusky Methodist waded inside the net with the vampire-priests, was bitten by a shark...
...increase China's food supplies and also curtail the production of opium, Generalissimo Chiang last week directed the governors of five provinces to convert poppy fields into farm lands...