Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advised the President bluntly that the CIA and State Department were handling Laos idiotically. He still loves to twit the State Department for its bureaucratic stodginess and lack of imagination. Harlech is no sycophant. But he seems to realize that his charm and intelligence allow him to cajole and convert effectively from the inside. Moreover, Harlech has a strong sense of Britain's dependence on America and thinks resentment of this relationship childish. The dependence is a fact, and as a realistic man he has learned to live with...
...Leary, a convert to Hinduism who was fired from the Harvard faculty in 1963 for giving hallucinogenic drugs to students, betrays boyish pride in the stir he has created ("They used to call people like me alchemists or medicine men"). However, he now agrees that LSD can be a danger. He has promised to forgo his own weekly LSD séances for a year, and recommends a similar moratorium for his disciples. Perfectly good hallucinations, he insists, can be had from yoga, movies or music. To prove it, he plans to run a do-it-yourself hallucination school...
...conducted a running feud with the church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power in Poland. Last week, as the church began the first of its millennium celebrations, the Communists were busy creating every imaginable block and trying to convert the millennium into a purely secular "Polish state" occasion...
Davis said he "went into this thing with a cynical viewpoint," convinced that "it would be an embarrassing contest to see who could make the best forced conversation." He came out a computer convert, insisting that Cathy was "a damn nice girl...
...scorching, scrub-covered valley in northeast Thailand, King Bhumibol Adulyadej this week will dedicate a $28.4 million dam across a tributary of the mighty Mekong River. Part of an ambitious, internationally financed effort to convert the Mekong's 2,625 miles of untamed torrent into a source of prosperity, the Nam Pong dam will not only store irrigation water for Thai farms but will provide electric power for both Thailand and neighboring Laos, part of it over jointly owned trans mission lines...