Word: convert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canada, in the throes of an important election, lost her Governor General (see p. 27). In the Union of South Africa former Prime Minister James Hertzog, who recently defended Adolf Hitler's policies and, like the Führer, blamed the Versailles Treaty for the war, worked to convert the Union into a republic, urged a separate peace with Germany. Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts, who said General Hertzog's speech sounded like Mein Kampf, kept South Africa at war by a Parliamentary vote of 81 to 59, charged widespread Nazi activity in the Union...
...Protestant was angular, deep-voiced, intense Dr. Richard Roberts. Presbyterian theologian and onetime moderator of the United Church of Canada. The Catholic was a famed convert, bespectacled, dynamic, firm-jawed Rev. William Edwin Orchard of London. To bring the two together for a series of four joint lectures, the sponsors of Yale's University Christian Conference had had to obtain the permission of Bishop Maurice Francis McAuliffe of Hartford (in whose diocese New Haven lies), and Arthur Cardinal Kinsley of London, Father Orchard's superior...
Frankly, we don't think Joe E. Lewis is worth it, but Austin Mack, his piano player, is a Harvard man, so there will be a convert charge of $1.50 per person. Saturdays, it's $2.00 per person. --Advertisement of the restaurant at the Poinciana Hotel, Miami Beach...
...M.P.s took this with loud cheer and a grain of salt. Minister Cross cited acute German shortages: petroleum, iron, cotton, copper, wool, oils, fats. He reminded the House that there was in Germany an "abnormal desire to convert currency into goods from 'fear of future inflation. . . . Important steel works may have to suspend operations for lack of raw materials. Many factories making rubber are closing for lack of raw materials and others are working below capacity. There is a shortage of accessories. . . . The textile situation is acute...
Earlier yesterday Sullivan had filed suit in Cambridge Court, denounced the Lampoon for its phony "expose" of his Communist affiliations, and announced that he would convert the moldy Poon clubhouse into a modern filling station...