Word: convert
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...Convert's Zeal. Proud of its constitutional mandate to advise the President on treaties, the Senate has long brooded over what it feels to be an arrogation of its influence in foreign affairs. Conservatives in the mid-'50s nearly succeeded in initiating a constitutional restriction, the Bricker Amendment, that would have stopped the President from signing executive agreements with other countries. When that attempt failed, emotions cooled for a while, only to be fired once again by Viet Nam and what many felt was Johnsonian duplicity in leading the U.S. into...
There was, to be sure, an element of the convert's zeal on the part of the proponents of last week's resolution, several of whom have admitted that they were negligent in not objecting much earlier to Viet Nam policy. Its chief sponsor, in fact, was J. William Fulbright, who five years ago also sponsored the Gulf of Tonkin resolution -the measure that the Johnson Administration later claimed was the "functional equivalent" of a declaration of war. In part at least, last week's National Commitments resolution is the doves' belated atonement for the Tonkin...
...context in which it appeared, the quotation implied that I favor continued political patronage in the Post Office Department and had argued at the White House against President Nixon's proposal to convert the present postal system into a public corporation...
Filling Chairs. He will have plenty to do. The most pressing immediate problem on the country's agenda is the economy. To curb fast-rising inflation, Pompidou has mentioned the possibility of floating a new state bond issue, which would convert back into savings some of the money that has forced domestic consumption to record heights. As for his longer-range hope of bolstering the economy, he will undoubtedly try to restore a favorable trade balance-which last month ran a deficit of $312 million-by resisting excessive wage demands and encouraging exports through tax incentives or subsidies...
...JUST AS Expedition rejects the maudlin sentimentality which is the point of C&W, it is also turned off to the missionary impulse which ties down a great deal of popular music. Dillard and Clark are not out to convert anyone; they are having an easy-going good time with their music, and that in itself is enough. "From Don't Come Rollin...