Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poet Walt (Leaves of Grass) Whitman from the bridge linking Philadelphia with Camden, N.J. (TIME, Dec. 26), Roman Catholic groups in the Camden area rallied around a new nomination. Their candidate to succeed Whitman: another famed New Jersey versemaker, Doughboy-Poet-Family Man Joyce (Trees) Kilmer, a Roman Catholic convert, killed at 32 in World War I and, in the view of one champion, "representative of American traditions, American family life and American soldiery...
...zero. Bill's Uncle Bob decided that his nephew should grow up to be a baseball player. If Bill developed into a lefthanded pitcher, he might play good enough ball on Monroe's sand lots to earn a college scholarship. So Uncle Bob started early to convert a naturally righthanded boy into a southpaw...
Inspired by this incident, Roman Catholic Author Keyes (a convert from Congregationalism in 1939) sent out a Christmas story to her friends titled Our Lord Had a Grandmother, Too. This warm, folksy meditation on the life of St. Anne, later reprinted in magazines, brought an avalanche of correspondence from Grandmother Anne's admirers, Protestant as well as Catholic...
...since the war will be built by El Paso Natural Gas Co. (TIME, Dec. 5) and General Tire & Rubber Co. In its first venture into the chemical industry, El Paso will feed natural gasoline, butane and propane into a $30 million plant at Odessa, Texas, and General Tire will convert the materials into synthetic rubber...
...Washington has little to lose by asking the Security Council to abolish the veto completely. If this proves impossible, Ambassador Lodge could propose that the veto be abolished on all membership matters. If the United States cannot maintain its international position before a world forum, it might as well convert the UN buildings into a hotel for American Legion conventions...