Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Politics (TIME, May 12, 1941), Fischer, like many another unblinkered convert, sang the blues of disillusionment. Gandhi and Stalin is the logical outcome of his about-face: a warning of what Stalin is up to and a prescription for stopping him. It is also an awkward plea for Gandhi's "method of nonviolent yet dynamic and direct action which fuses the impatience of revolutionists with the scruples of idealists." Fischer admires Gandhi as uncritically as he once admired Stalin. Like the Mahatma, he "wants to improve the system by improving man." Yet it was Gandhi himself who (a year...
Only two and one half hours transpired between the time that Harvard failed to convert a Boston University fumble into a touchdown and the moment when Jim Kenary took the ball from center and ran, and ran, and ran, backwards, sidewards, and forwards to consume the last dangerous forty five seconds of play. To some 33,000 loudly partisan spectators it seemed like a hell of a long time...
Things have been humming ever since. Last winter, Serkin and his father-in-law, Violinist Adolf Busch, gave a benefit concert in nearby Brattleboro and raised $3,800 to start the money-raising ball rolling. All summer, carpenters and masons have pounded nails and poured concrete to convert the colonial farmhouses for college use. For weeks an advance party of prospective Marlboro students has been working too. That is part of the Hendricks idea: at Marlboro, city-bred students will learn to use their hands: raise pigs, tap maple trees, make their own skis...
...darker and more evil forms, slithering down the steep descent that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity. Now Phantasies was romantic enough in all conscience; but there was a difference. . . . What it actually did to me was to convert, even to baptise . . . my imagination. It did nothing to my intellect nor (at that time) to my conscience. Their turn came far later and with the help of many other books...
...looked. up the leader of the town's young hooligans. The boy told him, "Yes, we're going to the devil all right. There's no place else to go." Evans promptly commandeered a hotel, rallied the town's boys with saws and hammers to convert it into "Evans' Gym." By the time he left, three years later, order was restored and his congregation had swelled from...