Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phan member of a major Meccan clan, entered the city's chief industry, cross-desert transport, and did well. He married his boss, Khadija, a widow some years older than he. He was devoted to her as long as she lived, and she was his first convert when he began going out into the desert and coming back with strange ideas about religion. The caravans to Mecca brought many tribes with many gods, and Mecca welcomed them all; the city contained the shrines of 360 deities. In addition to the regular business traffic, Mecca was host to pilgrims from...
...years ago) to pray and listen to Brother Hoyt Boles, a hefty, plain-spoken Presbyterian from Denton, Texas, and Brother Bob Goodrich, a Methodist from Dallas. There was no shouting or breast-beating. Even conversions came quietly, with only the exchange of a firm handclasp between minister and convert...
After Ohio's author-farmer Louis Bromfield called Kentucky bluegrass a "noxious weed," Kentucky's Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby and a group of fellow bluegrass fans hopped a plane and headed for Bromfield's Malabar Farm near Mansfield to convert the heretic. First step: the gift of a sack of bluegrass seed. Further inducements: a case of Kentucky bourbon and a home-smoked...
...receivers which will be moved from city to city all over the U.S. By broadcasting its color show last week on its regular channel, RCA also showed TV set owners that its system is compatible, i.e., it could receive the broadcasts in black & white. (RCA can also convert existing sets to color.) The new tube's performance was so impressive that such TV competitors as Allen B. Du Mont, who has opposed any form of color up till now, changed their minds. Said Du Mont: "The RCA picture was good enough to start commercial programs immediately...
Dogged Enemies. The trip, which cost U.S. taxpayers $6,000, failed to convert any of the seaway's enemies. Said Representative Tom Pickett of Texas: "I'll be the first to vote no. Texas has no interest in it and neither do I." But several were softened and seaway supporters were confident that a committee majority would now recognize that the project's importance rated a vote by the full House. Equally important, the committee chairman, Democrat Charles A. Buckley, was converted from a lukewarm supporter to an ardent seaway enthusiast-despite the violent anti-seaway sentiments...