Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even as law courts and legislators were slowly building Jefferson's wall, history created situations where the paths of church and state converged. During the 19th century, for example, the Government subsidized frontier preachers to help pacify-even as they tried to convert-warring Indian tribes. In the Reconstruction era, church agencies were given public grants to assist freed slaves. Moreover, the U.S. came to accept the right and duty of the churches to influence legislation when a moral issue was involved-happily, before the Civil War, in the case of Northern Protestants who fought for abolition, less...
...Islamic State of Yemen." But a major obstacle was Nasser's insistence that Imam Badr and his immediate family be banished in order to speed a reconciliation of the Yemeni factions. Yemen's royalists would hardly go along with that, though they might well agree to convert the Imamate into a purely religious institution without political power during the transition period leading up to elections...
...pressure and push themselves into the cells. And those heaters are among the least complicated devices on the spacecraft: a filament of gold-plated wire curving around the tank. The same type of device is a veteran of all the manned Mer cury and Gemini flights, being used to convert liquid oxygen into gas for the astronauts to breathe. When oxygen pressure started falling in Gemini 5, it was a sure sign that for some reason electricity was not heating that vital filament...
...imported scholarly monks and artisans from Italy, Spain, Ireland and England to convert Aachen into St. Augustine's Civitas Dei, the divine city, in the barbarian heartland of Europe. He encouraged one monk, Alcuin, to make script more readable; Carolingian minuscule is still the foundation for the text type used in present-day printing. He built an octagonal chapel that still stands in Aachen, along the lines of the mosaic-coated San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. He even stole marble columns from Ravenna to make his church more authentic...
...takes time to convert to forward motion the inertia that follows a massive buildup of arms. Last week the vast engine of military power that the U.S. has installed in South Viet Nam was finally warming to its task. A new air of confidence pervaded the week's decisions, a new professionalism was apparent as American forces deployed from the Delta to Danang on air strikes and ambushes, perimeter sweeps and bold airborne swoops. No longer were the Americans at Bien Hoa merely probing their own backyard. Last week, in little more than 24 hours, a full brigade...