Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small group of Catholics, including Convert Gilbert Keith Chesterton, occasionally got the best of Belloc. To this elite, as he called them, Old Gunner Belloc (he had served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...
Elected with the help of Peronista votes, Argentine President Arturo Fron-dizi struggled for six months to convert the ex-dictator's followers to his cause of rebuilding Argentina. Last week, in a Peronista-provoked crisis, he wrathfully turned against them...
...tape to guide the machines. The Marantettes' idea was far simpler: they wanted to use a stylus-like device connected to high-speed electric motors to "write" instructions directly on magnetic tape; when the tape was fed back electronically through the system of motors, the motors would then convert the tape impulses to mechanical action...
...establishments. The charges for these meals are kept low--under a dollar--so that members can come as frequently as possible. A few of the Clubs offer special fringe benefits: the Gas boasts a private squash court, and the Owl floods its garden in winter to convert it into a seasonal hockey rink...
...same time there will be a small number of mal-contents in each House whom no amount of deconversion, privacy, or fringe benefits can convert to the enjoyment of House life. It seems silly to keep these damned souls within the walls when they--and those who have to live with them--would be happier apart. Quincy House, despite Master Bullitt's wishes, will no doubt absorb part of the discontented and adventurous few, but the others will remain a burden to their respective Houses...