Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year ago, the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity financed a $927,341 project to attempt to convert the Rangers from evil to good. The Rev. John Fry, a short, tough, idealistic exMarine, ran the pacification program through his First Presbyterian Church in the Woodlawn district on the South Side. He has been involved in church-related slum programs before, and had considerable success in helping to damp down the Chicago riots of 1966. Fry's gym became a Ranger recreation center, and gang members were given training for productive jobs...
Unswerving Fealty. The Senator's campaign style remained as urbane and dispassionate as ever, even though the primaries were over and he now faces the arduous labor of trying to convert the convention delegates, mostly professional politicians, who are sympathetic or committed to Humphrey's camp. Ironically, McCarthy, as a scholar and a gentleman, could anticipate more sympathy from outright conservatives, even Republicans, who approve of his dignified image...
...upon themselves to request a transfer. And all too few of them make the effort. But they should not have to, said the court. It is the school boards, not the students, who are "clearly charged with the affirmative duty to take whatever steps might be necessary to convert to a unitary system in which racial discrimination would be eliminated root and branch." Unless a freedom-of-choice plan achieves that goal, it is unacceptable...
Nixon, however, has the best-run political mimeograph that is now in operation. One of his problems as a contestant for the Republican nomination has been to break out of his stereotype as a narrow sectarian, to show that he can appeal to enough Democrats and independents to convert the Republican minority into an election-day majority. His radio speech was aimed squarely at that wider audience. And at a moment of national dissension, any new, constructive note of national unity can only be welcome...
...Augustine: "And I dreamed I was amongst the ones that put him out to death. And I awoke in anger, so alone and terrified. I put my fingers against the glass and bowed my head and cried." Saint Augustine is a despairing Christian philosopher who tears around trying to convert the un-Christian. Dylan admires him tremendously. Not because he believes Christianity is cool or because he even necessarily believes in God. The message is that it's really important to believe in something, anything, any religion, anything meaningful enough to tell you why we're around and to answer...