Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Complaints fell largely on deaf ears until one morning last December when Press Secretary Bill Moyers awoke to discover that two hulking rats had been caught in carefully baited traps in his Driskill room. All of a sudden, the press had a powerful convert to its cause. Moyers dispatched aides to San Antonio to look into accommodations there; San Antonio sent lobbyists to Washington. The next time Johnson decided to visit Texas, Moyers put the press up in San Antonio...
After tripping backward into a love triangle, Ivanov, queasy with guilt, lashes out directly at his wife (a convert from Judaism played by Vivien Leigh). Gielgud's fingers claw at the nonexistent handle of a desk drawer, his eyes hesitate. His voice pauses for an instant and then spills out the word, "Jewess!" Finally, he tells her the doctor thinks she will die very soon, and his flaring agitation dies down to remorse...
...homecoming. The Vice President stepped from the chopper into Lyndon Johnson's capacious abrazo, then plunged into a hectic round of briefings and appearances. Having stumped nine Far Eastern countries to solicit support for the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam policy, his task last week was to convert the critics back home...
...following the tradition of Orthodoxy, Eastern-rite Catholic priests are allowed to marry before ordination (except in the U.S. and Canada, where Latin-rite Catholic bishops have until now opposed the idea as "giving rise to scandal"). Pope Paul and his two predecessors gave dispensations to a handful of convert Protestant ministers who were ordained in Europe as priests, even though they already had wives and children. Last month the Archbishop of Mariana in Brazil presided at the marriage of Pedro Maciel Vidigal, a former priest who was released from his vows by the Vatican, and is now a member...
...Down Under; that the old Spanish-mosstroopers of Southern decadence ride again in New South Wales. White's celebrated style, in its sidelong, suggestive, subjunctive way, might nudge a reader to the conclusion that this is like early Capote or Tennessee Williams. And, somehow, White has contrived to convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard...