Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noisy, crowded meeting hall at Douglas, on the Isle of Man, where 1,000 delegates representing 8,000,000 British union workers gathered for the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress. The Bevanites came with thoraxes well oiled and briefcases crammed with speeches and resolutions concocted to harass, convert, and, if possible, uproot the T.U.C.'s Percheron-stolid leadership. Amplified by Communist and fellow-traveler support which they disdain but inevitably attract, Bevanite voices rang out with demands for censure against T.U.C. members who accept posts in the Conservative Churchill government, for condemnation of U.S. cold war policy...
Other interrogators worked on Oatis in relays. Had not Oatis gone to U.S. embassy Military Attache Lieut. Colonel George Atwood and told him about plans to convert Prague apartments into army quarters? Oatis admitted he had gone to Atwood with such a rumor, which he had heard at the Indian embassy, but only to check it with him, as any reporter would. The Communists seized on his talk with Atwood as additional proof of his espionage, hammered away at him for days with other questions, thrusting written confessions in front of him all the time. But "much of the answer...
This summer, Townsend's efforts to teach the natives Christian ethics landed him in trouble with the Roman Catholic Church in Peru. The apostolic vicar for the jungle area, Monsignor Buenaventura Uriarte, boomed: "Townsend's institute is engaged in an active and purposeful campaign to convert our jungle Indians to evangelistic Protestantism." Methodist Townsend, a member of Los Angeles' Church of the Open Door, vigorously denied any sectarianism, but the cry was taken up by the conservative press in Lima. For a while, it looked as if Townsend's good works were...
...meaning dollars. Then he hurried back to the big, red brick U.S. embassy in Teheran, where his staff, in shirtsleeves, worked full speed. Messages winged between Teheran and Washington, between Washington and London. The West's diplomats faced an opportunity they had muffed once before. The challenge: to convert Iran's wondrous reprieve into a sustained survival. The need: to support Iran's economy until it can support itself...
...British Commonwealth countries, the conference would be a failure if Russia were not there. The British hope to convert the Korean parley into a de facto Big Five conference and talk magniloquently of driving a wedge between Moscow and Peking. This week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold implied that the British approach was "cooperative and constructive," and Cabot Lodge, bowing to the inevitable, accepted a compromise that was a U.S. capitulation in everything but name. In deference to the U.S., the Assembly might not actually invite Russia to the conference. It could simply recommend that a Soviet representative be seated...