Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hail of Complaints. As a result of the Congress Party's vacillation, India's Socialist Party, though still small, is gradually gaining members, many from disillusioned Congress ranks. A typical recent convert was Sarangdhar Das, an engineer, who summed up much of India's present resentments when he described a visit to his native province: "The villagers were no longer exulting in freedom. Instead, they came at me with a hail of complaints -where is our cloth, where is our food, where is our fuel? I urged them to plant trees for fuel. They pointed...
...convert's home in the mountain village of Melcamaya, Baptist Missionary Norman Dabbs was holding a Bible class. When 300 drunken Indians began to stone the house, Dabbs and 40 terrified converts tried to escape in a truck. The Indians cut across a dry river bed, intercepted the truck, laid about with sticks and stones. When they had finished, Norman Dabbs and seven Bolivian Baptists lay dead...
...corpse which was buried with great ceremony-but which turned out to be someone else. Masons believed that he voluntarily left the country. Hie was later rumored to be a hermit in Canada, posing as an Indian chief in the Rockies, and living in Constantinople, having become a convert to Mohammedanism...
With a big list of backers,* Parton had bought eight community sheets and shopping guides, then merged them into one citywide newspaper with sub-editions for each major suburb. Eventually he had hoped to convert the Independent into a daily. But advertising had come in too slowly, and Publisher Parton had stretched his financial shoestring too far and too fast. In cash and credit, he had spent $600,000. Said Parton: "Our war chest was too small...
...same time, Cissy's seven heirs were looking for a chance to convert their legacies into cash. Times-Herald Editor Frank C. Waldrop, together with two co-executors of Cissy's estate, agreed to sell the trust stock to McCormick for a reported $9,500,000-if McCormick would pay another $4,500,000 for the Times-Herald as well. On top of the $640,000 each of the seven faithful would get from the Times-Herald sale, Waldrop drove a still shrewder bargain. He got the colonel to agree to give each of them ten shares (worth...