Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school, she averred, would "break through some of the traditional ideas of education for adolescents." In the rolling dairy country near Putney, Vt., she bought up 620 acres of farmland, pitched in with her first pupils (54 boys and girls) and teachers to equip classrooms and a library, convert outbuildings into dormitories...
...feel that the extra effort that could have been exerted to convert Mem Hall into a potential auditorium via a P.A. system is small in comparison to the harsh feelings generated by this over-sight...
Fields of Jute. Mohammed Ali was candid. The 1947 partition which created the Moslem state of Pakistan left it an agricultural country. It had vast fields of jute but not a single mill to convert it to burlap. To balance the economy, Pakistan needed industries. Some, the government has built itself. But "the best method of industrialization is through the investment of private venture capital," said Ali. Voicing the creed of a convinced free enterpriser, he declared: "It was the adventurous risk capital of the 19th century that built the fortress of industrial strength the U.S. enjoys today...
...convert's name on one of the cards sets off a chain reaction designed to lead the convert into permanent commitment in a local church (one reason why Graham, unlike many another evangelist, is popular with local churchmen). Next morning, a personal-looking letter from Billy Graham is mailed to the new convert. Later he is invited to another meeting and can order additional literature, known as an I.R. (for Instruction in Righteousness) Pack. Meanwhile, three duplicates of the "decision card'' are typed up, one for the current working file, one for the future follow-up file...
...Star Is Born (Transcona; Warner) is a massive effort, unreeling ponderously for three hours and two minutes, to convert the Hollywood legend into something like Wagnerian musicomedy. The producers assumed astonishing risks. The story and the title were borrowed from a famed old Academy Award winner (1937) that has been shown to death on television in recent years. Furthermore, the star, Judy Garland, was a 32-year-old has-been, as infamous for temperament as she is famous for talent...