Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life of this strange mystic was said to have been filled with "former friends." But though he estranged many, Bloy brought into the Roman Catholic fold many an apostate or proselyte to whom the church's more official voices had sounded too worldly and well-fed. One convert was the Thomist philosopher, Jacques Maritain. In 1905, Maritain, then a God-seeking philosophy student, and his young wife, Raïssa, visited Léon Bloy for the first time. They found in him the spiritual inspiration they had been looking...
Since money must be spent, 'and help must be rendered, America can convert every dollar into an ally . . . only by convincing Europeans and Asiatics alike that we hold by the spiritual ideal of Christianity, the intellectual idea of justice, the humanitarian ideal of liberty. . . . And we have much to do-so much to do-right here at home, before such professions will make sense or meaning to the world...
...commercially feasible for four or five years at least.) Furthermore, present black & white receivers could not receive broadcasts under the CBS system of color television. But when, and if, RCA's color is ready for the market, Jolliffe promised that RCA would have a gadget which would easily convert color into black & white for reception on black & white sets...
...country where deep political and religious convictions often lead to bloodshed, 74-year-old Abul Kasem Fuzlul Huq has a singularly open mind. Huq can be converted, and in the grip of conversion, can convert others. He can also be re-converted...
Middle & Bottom. The Russians' earlier denazification drives neglected smaller fry. They worked on the theory: "Kill man at top, utilize man at middle, convert man at bottom." During 1946, the Russians-straining every nerve to maintain German industrial production for reparations to Russia-had freely used millions of middle and bottom Nazis in shops and factories. According to the Russians' own figures, 27,994 office workers and 24,512 railroad officials employed last year were former Nazis. Half of Thuringia's high-school teachers were former members of the Nazi Party...