Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Missionary Douglas was still hopeful that the long walk (tentatively scheduled for March) would convert the two newsmen into parkway haters of the first order...
...martial beak of a nose and a clipped white beard. Though at 63 he is ailing, he used to look capable of tearing a bullock apart with his hands. For the past 30 years, Ghaffar Khan has practiced and preached nonviolence. He was Gandhi's chief convert among the Moslems, and in the rugged Khyber Pass region he is still known as "the Frontier Gandhi...
...beer markets (TIME, Oct. 26). Brooklyn's Liebmann Breweries has paid $6,000,-000 for Los Angeles' and San Francisco's Acme Brewing plants and will spend $4,000,000 more for expansion (planned capacity: 1,400,000 bbls. a year). The Los Angeles plant will convert to Rheingold, while the San Francisco brewery will continue to sell for a time under the old names, Acme Gold Label and Bulldog...
Claude J. Batchelor gobbled up the Communist line almost from the day in 1951 when he was taken prisoner in Korea. He quickly became known as a rabid "progressive," worked constantly to convert his fellow P.O.W.s, and, to anyone who would listen, proclaimed himself a "peace fighter." When other prisoners were repatriated after the ceasefire, 22-year-old Corporal Batchelor. 1st Cavalry Division, was a leader of the 23 Americans who chose to stay behind...
...presidential yacht two days after the inauguration, he wiped out the Philippines Marine Corps with one casual remark to Corps Commander Commodore Jose Francisco. "Commodore," he said, "I'm going to convert your marines into an engineer battalion. I want them to learn how to install irrigation pumps and pipes and go out and help people in the barrios. Let's start with San Luis, that's Taruc's home town. Let's go in there and make that a real model village...