Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ball last week and fell into the water bucket. "Because sports are nonpolitical in nature," declaimed the dead-serious News, "no censor hobbles sportcasters . . . [But in] parlous times ... it behooves us to know who are working at the microphones and whether they . . . might be subversive or convert themselves into mediums of communication for an enemy that might strike overnight." Not pointing "the finger of suspicion," the Sporting News nevertheless recommended: since labor leaders, scientists and teachers get loyalty tests, why not sportcasters...
...being "too ignorant, too greedy, too reactionary, and, in a certain sense, too cowardly" in the struggle against Communism. Burnham cites the U.S. businessman's shortsighted eagerness for keeping U.S. tariffs high while preaching free trade to the world; his prejudice against fighting side by side with converts from Marxism, whom Burnham (a convert from Marxism) regards as the most knowing scouts in that fight; his readiness to trade with his Communist enemies any time he can make a fat profit...
...could cut its dollar oil bill, the biggest single item in its dollar deficit. Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) which stood to lose $80 million worth of business a year if the British embargo became complete, had already offered Britain an alternative plan. If Britain would permit Jersey Standard to convert 50% of its sterling sales into dollars, Standard's President Eugene Holman would set up a British company, subject to British laws and taxation, to handle Standard's operations in the sterling area...
...password among the avantgarde. Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller proclaimed her unpublished diary worthy to "take its place beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius, Rousseau, Proust and others." By 1944 Paris-born Author Nin had arrived in Greenwich Village, privately published three books, and decided to "convert and transpose the diary of 65 volumes into a full, long novel . . ." Like her other two published novels Ladders to Fire (1946) and Children of the Albatross (1947), The Four-Chambered Heart reads more like a diary than a novel-but a diary in which nothing actually happens...
Many of the winning amateurs were old hands. A taxi driver recalled that as a child he had drawn pictures of ballplayers instead of playing ball. A more recent convert had been persuaded to try after reading Irving Stone's story of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life, 'and W. Somerset Maugham's version of the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. Another novice confessed that his wife had given him a paintbox to keep him home nights. Most contestants had a contrary reason for painting: escape...