Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General de Gaulle was also reported to have brought back from Moscow Russia's agreement to a plan to amputate the Rhineland from the Reich, convert it into an independent state under international, mainly French supervision. Twice before-in 1801-15 and 1919-30-France had briefly held the left bank of the Rhine. This time France intended her "Left Bank" plan to be more permanent. But whether or not General de Gaulle had convinced the Kremlin of the validity of Foch's dictum-". . . the Rhine is the military frontier of the western European nations against Germany...
...world market, have come recklessly close to pricing themselves out of the domestic market. Government warehouses bulge with 6,500,000 bales of surplus cotton. And the price of rayon is now so close to that of cotton that many of the larger textile mills expect to convert their production to rayon fabrics after...
...many, this seemed much inferior procedure to Soviet Russia's efforts to, convert captured German soldiers. Unhampered by the rules of the Geneva Convention, and with interests vastly different from those of the U.S., Russia has set up two effective and functional organizations among its German prisoners (TIME, Oct. 30). One is political and educates Germans to the merits of Communism; the other provides a cadre of Russia-lovers for the future German officers corps. Many an influential and respected German officer, facing the prospect of Russian domination, has accepted the Soviet offer in the hope of postwar influence...
Franz Werfel is a Jew who writes so much like a Christian (Embezzled Heaven, The Song of Bernadette) that he has more than once had to deny that he is a convert. In Between Heaven & Earth (Philosophical Library, $3), published last week, Czech Author Werfel (now living in California) for the first time discusses his deep religious faith...
...trolley line; to swap legends about the fabulous, wispy, ageless columnist "Sparrow" Robertson who sent his copy over from Harry's New York Bar and lived 20 years in Paris knowing only one word of French-ici; to quote the letter signed "Old Philadelphia Lady" (asking how to convert Centigrade into Fahrenheit) which appeared day after day for 20 years on the Herald's editorial page...