Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peaceful People. In the 17th Century, Spanish friars and soldiers failed to convert the Lacandones, who still worship Mayan gods. Unlike some of their fierce, Christianized Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged...
...Commons set a jubilant stage for Winston Churchill in his imperial role. For two days men of all parties hailed Commonwealth and Empire, bucked up officialdom for the coming conference of Dominion Prime Ministers (TIME, April 24). Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, most persistent of Churchill-baiters and a recent convert to Empire, called the common tune: ''Sir, we have no intention, any one of us, of throwing the British Commonwealth of Nations overboard in order to satisfy a section of the American press or anyone else...
...work at Fort Benning caught the attention of able young Lieut. Colonel George Catlett Marshall; twelve years later General Marshall picked Omar Bradley to convert the Infantry School at the fort from a peaceful little unit of 300 to 400 students into a roaring mass-production center capable of handling 14,000 officer candidates at a time. Bradley did the job without raising his voice. Later he took over and trained the 82nd and 28th Divisions for combat. In February 1943, when things were not going too well in Tunisia, General Marshall sent Omar Bradley over...
...1850s spiritualism swept the U.S. eastern seaboard like a fog. It seemed, said one flabbergasted convert, "as though the spirit world, having at last hit upon a means of communicating with ours, could not get enough of it." Mediums sprang to fame, set the ether vibrating with spirit music, spirit painting, voices, lights, icy currents of air, luminous faces, words written in fire. "A whole mine of mysticism hatching beneath the skepticism of the 19th Century," said the shrewd French Diarists Edmond and Jules Goncourt...
...Against Many? For Mr. King, in his 70th year, this meeting will present both an opportunity and a crisis. It is an opportunity for him to convert the other Dominions to his vision of the future: an all-embracing system of world security resting on the support of all states, large and small. In pledging Canada to such an ideal, and placing that ideal ahead of Canada's obligations to the Commonwealth, Mr. King set his Dominion out as the champion of small states and against a world dominated by a few great powers...