Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Party (led, for a change, by its young backbenchers) is in favor of permitting commercial TV. The Socialists are strongly opposed. But many a staunch Tory is also for control by BBC, on the principle that too much television in any form is bad for the people. A recent convert to BBC control is Tory Lord Salisbury, who used to boast that he had never seen a TV show and never intended...
What specially roused the Anglican weekly were such words of invocation as: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty . . . we cast ourselves into your arms . . . Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble . . . protect the Holy Church...
HOLLYWOOD'S Eagle Lion Studios, Inc., which has been ailing for years, will be the first movie studio to convert entirely to TV. A West Coast syndicate (among the directors: Oilman Edwin Pauley and Broker Daniel F. Reeves, president of the Los Angeles Rams football team) bought Eagle Lion for $1,100,000, will change the name to First National Studios...
...Catholic Action youth group, he recited the prayer he wrote for the Marian Year: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect the Holy Church, make all men feel the attraction of Christian goodness...
...Wrap-Around Designs for manufacturers' cartons with which children can convert plain cardboard cartons into trains, boats, houses, cars and airplanes...