Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that there would be no place for him or any king in the Arab "nation" Nasser talked about. Nor could Saud abide the sight of Communist influence that Nasser had brought into the Middle East. Saud's visit to the U.S. last February did not so much convert as confirm him in his attitude. As soon as King Hussein proved ready to stand up for himself, Saud invited him to Riyadh and gave him money, arms and solid diplomatic support...
SOUND OF A DISTANT HORN, by Sven Stolpe (301 pp.; Sheed & Ward; $3.95), is within echoing distance of the works of François Mauriac and Graham Greene, in which anguished would-believers are pursued by both hell and heaven. Swedish Novelist Sven-Stolpe, 51, a Roman Catholic convert, tells of Edvard Kansdorf, an expatriate middle-aged Swede dying of cancer in Paris. He is a relapsed convert to Catholicism who tries to drown his consciousness as well as his conscience in cognac. The nausea rather than the pain of living makes him almost yearn for death. Around him revolve...
...Convert to Success. In neighboring British Columbia, Cecil Bennett, a hardware merchant and Tory politician, forsook his old party in 1951, joined the new Social Credit movement, led it to two straight election victories. He built roads, lured industries, cut the provincial debt and this year installed his own form ot giveaway: a $28 tax forgiveness for every homeowner. Bennett has masterminded Social Credit's plans to win national sway by nominating as many as 170 candidate: in Canada's 265 constituencies...
Written in tones of resignation-to domestic economics and to the march of progress in Atomic Age weapons-Great Britain's message to the world was a historic landmark in military history. The British decision to convert almost completely to nuclear-armed missiles (see FOREIGN NEWS) had deep meaning for all of the world, but for the U.S. it had very special significance. Said the British White Paper: "The free world is today mainly dependent for its protection upon the nuclear capacity...
English 10 has two problems. The first is that, as in most group tutorials, nobody does the work before the meetings, which means that the tutors must become lecturers--an expensive luxury. The most obvious remedy is to convert group tutorial into a seminar, in which students are expected to write weekly papers to serve as a basis of discussion. This not only ensures that they come to class with something to say, but forces them to think far more carefully about their reading and their responses than is now the case...