Word: convert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fascism and Nazism, and on the side of Communism; (4) I failed, along with many others who tried to keep America out of World War II, but I have not changed my fundamental views or theses about Fascism, Communism and the wave of the future. I was never a convert to Fascism, Communism or anything else of a political ideology nature. I am still not a convert...
...delivery entrance of Paris' U.S. embassy, at the private billets of American officials, at some 400 service clubs and European restaurants, McLane's trucks roll up with everything from fresh celery to fresh caviar, from pineapple to pretzels. Last week McLane launched his new est project: to convert Europe to the short-order diner. McLane hopes to install his own infra-red cookers in some 6,000 small cafes, thus create a vast new market for his precooked hot dogs, cheeseburgers and U.S.-style barbecue...
Though automation has made a striking impact on U.S. industry, the great brain and the robot machine will never make the human mind and hand obsolete. In some companies automation is not practical. One manufacturer decided to convert all the clerical work to automatic processing by means of punch card order blanks that could be fed into machines...
...judge, learning belatedly that the House of Hospitality was a charitable enterprise (an outgrowth of Convert Day's pacifist-inclined and anti-industrial Catholic Worker movement), cooperated by setting aside the fine...
Bertrand Russell, Britain's most astute rationalist, once wrote an essay called "The Harm that Good Men Do." In this book, that is also the theme of Roman Catholic Convert Greene. He saw the French debacle in Indo-China as correspondent for LIFE and the London Sunday Times. Out of Saigon, he wrote of the doomed Vietnamese, the touchy, defeatist French and their absurd allies like the Caodist "Pope," who had female cardinals and canonized Victor Hugo. Most significantly, he wrote in his diary: "Is there any solution here the West can offer? But the bar tonight was loud...