Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after the Axis occupation of Tunis, Mr. Dunbar got word that he was on their hostage list. He gathered some convert Jews and other trusted friends, held a last secret religious service. Then he went into hiding. The Italians and Nazis were hot after him, and eight times he was forced to seek new shelter. Once he shivered: General von Arnim set up headquarters in the next villa; one night, when he slipped back to the old rectory to fetch some medicine, the Nazis moved into his refuge, and he escaped capture only because friends tipped...
Like any other soldiers, airmen learn more in a few hours of fighting than in months of training; the smart ones convert their varied experiences to new techniques of battle. Last week on the palm-and pine-dotted sands of central Florida the Army Air Forces showed how it was spreading these new arts of war through squadrons fighting around the world...
...Dorlans. The Duce began by ticking off King Vittorio Emanuele, presumably as insurance against the unlikely prospect that the sour-faced little monarch decides either to abdicate or convert his House of Savoy into a bargain basement for peace terms. Mussolini pointedly recalled a decree of May 10, 1936, which elevated him to rank jointly with the King as "first marshal of Italy." Thus the King (constitutionally Commander in Chief of all armed forces) can legally make overtures to the Allies only with the consent and participation of the Duce...
...recent convert to baseball, Four-Striper McClure is now a rabid fan. When Seaman Rizzuto made a home run in a recent game with the Washington Senators, the Certain sprang off the players' bench, rushed out to shake his hand as he crossed the plate. During another game, when fly-chasing Di Maggio backed into a deep gully on the edge of the field, Captain McClure jumped into his private jeep, scooted across the field to see if he was hurt. The Captain is constantly tacking notices on the clubhouse bulletin board. The morning of a game with...
...billion pesos at the end of 1942, by last week were up to 2.5 billion as gold and exchange flowed in to balance her export surplus. But an important fraction of this increase came from speculators-particularly European refugees wise in the ways of foreign exchange-anxious to convert from dollars (which Argentina cannot convert into U.S. goods) into pesos (which rose in terms of dollars...