Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning to see the need for more action in common. In his unity-centered keynote address, the Most Rev. Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury and primate of the Communion, called for a new sharing of missionary responsibilities. "Let African and Asian missionaries come to England to help to convert the post-Christian heathenism in our country and to convert our English Church to a closer following of Christ," he said. The archbishop may get his wish some day. At a meeting of an advisory council of Anglican prelates, the churches worked out a plan that included a better distribution...
...history whose work amounts to an authentic ism; no one ever speaks of "Bachism" or "Mozartism," but Wagnerism has emerged as a way of life more than once, usually with unfortunate results. Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria, was an ardent disciple, but Wagner's most disastrous convert was Hitler, who said that an understanding of Nazi Germany required an understanding of Wagner. Hitler became a vegetarian in imitation of Wagner and liked to think that his SS embodied the spirit of Parsifal's Knights of the Grail. While listening to Wagner, friends reported, Hitler became lost...
...Witnesses share a lot of characteristics with Boy Scouts. They are trustworthy, helpful, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent-and (to many outsiders) confounded nuisances. They are conspicuously meek and devout in their big Yankee Stadium meetings, but can be tiresomely importunate in their door-to-door convert hunts and their litigious defenses of their "God-given right" not to vote, bear arms or salute flags...
More startling was Washington's "standby" arrangement to draw $500 million worth of convertible foreign currencies for one year from the IMF. The IMF is already stocked up with its full quota of dollars. The U.S. will therefore swap its borrowed currency for dollars held by foreign countries that need hard currencies to pay off debts to the IMF but cannot use dol lars to do so. These countries will thus be less tempted to convert the dollars they hold into U.S. gold. Sighed one U.S. official to the IMF: "I never thought...
...politics. Nationalistic politicians playing to the crowds have refused to allow rate increases to keep up with the country's rampaging inflation. Service has gone from bad to dreadful, the government has been crying for Amforp to sell out, and the company itself has been eager to convert its assets into cash. Last April a deal was struck: the government of President Joao Goulart agreed to pay Amforp $142.7 million over 25 years, and the company pledged to reinvest $101,250,000 in other government-approved ventures in Brazil...