Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sseldorf's City Hospital, Keusen decided that his country had suffered too much from specialists-tough Realpolitiker, spiritual flagpole-sitters, and thought-spinning intellectuals. What was needed, he felt, was to reunite education and firsthand experience of life and to weld both within the Christian tradition. Keusen, a convert from Roman Catholicism, set out to mold a new type of German youth "who knows something, who is somebody, and who believes in something...
Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe gave a reporter a hint of what Hollywood glamor girls talk about between performances on the set. Sample noted during the shooting of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in which she is starred with Jane Russell: "Jane, who is deeply religious, tried to convert me to her religion [she is actually nondenominational], and I tried to introduce her to Freud. Neither...
...will read, "I am a Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform them...
...Mitsuo Fuchida, 51, onetime Japanese navy airman who directed the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and later became a Christian convert and missionary (TIME, Nov. 17), paid Hawaii a return visit last week. "This time," he told reporters, "I come not with orders from Tokyo but from a higher command: God." When he spoke of a wish to lay a wreath on the bombed-out hulk of the U.S.S. Arizona, which still holds the bodies of 1,092 U.S. Navymen below decks, the Honolulu Advertiser editorialized: "Hawaii will listen with interest to what Captain Fuchida has to say, but Hawaii believes...
...years in the Sahara he made only one convert, a blind, illiterate old woman. Ever the good Frenchman, he also filed copious military intelligence reports, and briefed French officials on Moroccan affairs and native sentiments...