Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strain for fear he himself will be attacked. Of course he knows that he has so much of a record of leftist activities ... It appears that he is trying to buy personal immunity from attack by turning informer . . . Some think that Fulton J. Sheen may soon announce another distinguished convert...
...promises were hardly enough to convert the enemies of EDC, but they were enough to blunt some of their arguments. There remained Precondition No. 3: a settlement with West Germany of the future of the Saar. West German Chancellor .. Konrad Adenauer, bucking strong feelings at home, is going more than halfway to meet French demands for economic control of the German-speaking Saar. But it will be difficult to achieve agreement by May 18, giving Laniel an excuse for more delay if he wants...
Tito was in Turkey this time to try to convert the Yugoslav-Greek-Turkish treaty of friendship, signed last year in Ankara, into a military-assistance pact. Arriving in Istanbul aboard a Yugoslav training ship, Tito barely had time to deposit his luggage at Dolmabaghché Palace before he was whisked off to Ankara to confer with President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes...
...foreigners are subject to any obligations the government might see fit to impose on them. This was strongly contested by the Christian members of the House, who maintained that constitutional rights apply equally to all, and that the right to propagate religion has no meaning without the right to convert. Maniben Patel, spinster daughter of the late Congress Party strongman, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, countered with a demand that the government investigate all Christian missionaries, accusing them of being responsible for damage to Hindu temples in Travancore-Cochin and of discriminating against Hindu nurses in Christian hospitals...
...somewhat brutish farmer, unable to tolerate the crying of his infant son. While Jem is caressing the child's head in a fatherly fashion, the baby begins to wail and what was gentle fondling becomes a severe enough rubbing to kill the infant. Pitts has the ability to convert the discontinuous ramblings of a man's thought into readable and convincing prose. His first paragraph on the hypnotic effect of a gate scraping back and forth along the ground and, later, the section on Jem's mounting irritation as the child's crying grows in intensity are particularly fine...