Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plan aid got under way, the program had allowed U.S. magazine, newspaper and book publishers (along with other U.S. businessmen who invest abroad) to buy "convertibility insurance" from the Government. The insurance (bought at 1? for every dollar involved) guaranteed U.S. publishers that, if they could not convert into dollars the money they received from foreign sales, they could collect dollars from the U.S. Treasury in return for their blocked currencies. The program was one of the most effective means of getting U.S. publications around the world, and under it millions of magazines, books and newspapers have gone abroad. Furthermore...
...with a seven-year-old Moslem girl. Her name was Hasan Bibi, and she stood tense and terrified among them while they debated what to do with her. "Kill her," advised a Sikh refugee from Pakistan, "just as they slaughtered my children in Lahore." A man of piety disagreed: "Convert her to our holy religion and let her marry a brave Sikh boy when she comes...
...that God has come among men not for the sake of the just, but for sinners, for their salvation. He is not really at home among us save when he is in the midst of sinners; he is worthily received only with the tears of repentance ... He came to convert sinners, but he converted them only by making himself loved. That is what, without opening her mouth, this woman teaches...
...Expanding Market. "It has become too easy," said Benson, "to merely spend taxpayers' money to bolster markets." He called upon the dairymen to meet the challenge facing their industry, to convert their "problems" into "opportunities," to improve techniques, to cut costs and thereby lower prices, to seek new outlets. "No industry thrives on a shrinking volume of business. We need an expanding, growing market ... If the Government still owns any appreciable amount of butter when 1954 arrives, I hope all of us will frankly admit our failures...
...whom men lost their heads-figuratively rather than literally. And she danced her famous dance of the seven veils not to lure Herod into serving up the Prophet's head on a platter but merely to distract the King while a handsome Roman commander (Stewart Granger), a secret convert to John's Christian teachings, tried to free...