Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate's acknowledged master at charting the paths of accommodation and compromise. He is contemptuous of the crusaders and windmill tilters among his colleagues. "All they do is fight, fight, fight," he says, "and get 15 Senate votes." As for himself: "I would rather win a convert than an argument...
...Renegade features a fanatical Christian missionary who goes out to convert a barbarous tribe dwelling in a dread-provoking "city of salt." The natives promptly cut out his tongue and convert him into a devoted slave of their fetish-god. A turnabout ending suggests that man can drink deeply of neither good nor evil without finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass...
Setting out to battle tariff lobbies, Convert Weeks put Commerce Department staffers to work drafting a series of studies detailing the beneficial effects of foreign trade in 120 different Congressional districts. As of last week, ten studies had been completed and hand-delivered by Commerce Department officials to the ten. Congressmen from the districts covered. Studying Commerce's brochure on Connecticut's First District (machinery-manufacturing Hartford), the district's Republican Representative Edwin Hyland May Jr. made up his mind to vote for the Administration bill...
...supply it, Judaism would need both missionaries and missions, and Gordis is well aware of what they would be up against. For one thing, potential converts would have to acquire not only a new set of beliefs but "a new pattern of practice that requires a complete transformation of one's way of life." In addition, "it should be remembered that no Christian sect has ever formally surrendered the goal of converting the Jews to Christianity. There is a grave question as to how these churches would react if Jews were to begin to convert Christians to Judaism...
...places where a dollar goes farther, and perhaps even some where it goes faster. But at the race track a man can get his money's worth. Tourist trimming stops at the gate. Whatever the weather, there is the bright sight of the silks rounding the turn and the convert-making thunder of thoroughbreds in a charge for the finish. There is also the base and altogether beautiful possibility of swift financial gain. A few hours spent studying past performances, a few dollars wagered wisely are said by some amateur gerontologists to be as healthful as fresh air and sunshine...