Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workmen's clothes. Abbés Louis Bouyer, 35, and Bernard Cagne, 28, are ordained members of the Mission de Paris; like 85 other French "worker priests" (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), they live and work with their flocks, do not always reveal themselves as priests, seek to convert by example as well as by precept. Bouyer earns his daily bread as a production hand in the Hispano Suiza plant; Cagne in the Simca auto factory. Sometimes, say critics of the worker-priest scheme, it is the priests, not their fellow workers who get converted...
Peronistas, 16 provincial governments composed entirely of Peronistas, and all the national territories run entirely by Peronistas . . ." The time had come, the President suggested, for consolidation: "We must gradually convert [the Peronista movement] from a mass movement into a political institution...
...France, where he found only one convert to rattle around in "a great spiritual vacuum," Evangelist Billy Graham had a little chat with SHAPE'S General Dwight D. Eisenhower. The general, Graham was relieved to discover, approved of religion. Ike, he reported, told him: "We must have...
...about organizing the new laymen's movement. His aim: "To call upon Protestant lay-Christians to assume . . . responsibility in all provinces of public life." Although Thadden was once active in practical politics (as a Conservative deputy in the prewar Reichstag), he does not want to convert the Kirchentag into a political party...
...back." Protests exploded from other places. Said a spokesman for the Social Democrats, the fiercest opponents of German rearmament: "The pastor plays the Russian game." Snapped Welt der Arbeit, newspaper of the West German trade unions: "Niemöller seems to labor under illusions that he can convert Stalin...