Word: convert
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Hamrick, 44. wanted to expand his links to 18 holes, but he lacked capital to buy more land. To the rescue came that openhanded giant, the federal Agriculture Department. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman has adopted a policy of helping marginal family farmers convert some of their land to recreation uses. That approach, Freeman hopes, will both make a dent in farm surpluses and enable some poor farmers to earn a better living. Congress has obliged by broadening the lending authority of the Farmers Home Administration. When Hamrick read about that in a local paper, he sent in an application...
Translated from a Latin manuscript into thee-and-thou English by Writer Catherine Van Dyke, the Letter tells how Claudia's son Pilo had his withered foot cured by Jesus. Overcome, Claudia tries to convert her husband to faith in Christ, but Pilate is an intellectual, and a nut about philosophy, and won't bite. From her vantage point near Herod's Palace, Claudia describes Christ's passion in gory detail: "Jesus, bound to a pillar, and standing in a red pool of his own blood." After the Crucifixion, Pilate loses favor with Rome, and ends...
...states, mainly the more populous and wealthy, have anticipated the President's proposals-which, in fact, are based largely on their pioneering. Kansas, Massachusetts, New York and California have already done much to improve their state hospitals and to convert them into places where patients are treated instead of being simply locked away. But high on the list of mental-health pioneers there is also, surprisingly, the state of Georgia...
...Sullivan warned that Communists consider intellectuals "a primary target group" and seek to convert them "through front organizations concerned with such problems as civil rights, world peace, and civil liberties." "Gullibility is a real problem," he said, but if an individual is careful, "he should be able to recognize a front and come to grips with...
Fanfani feared that the Socialists would sign local electoral agreements with Communists and thereby convert the new regions into leftist strongholds. Even after Nenni pledged not to cooperate with the Reds, many of Fanfani's Christian Democrats remained skeptical of his promise. With Nenni demanding quick action on the regional plan, the looming alternative was compromise or collapse of the coalition...