Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...change that is taking place under President Quadros is a healthy one, and Brazil certainly deserves a credit of confidence from this country in order to continue forging ahead speedily for its place in the sun among the great powers of the West. Before the U.S. tries to convert its enemies into friends, let it consolidate its relationship with its real allies and friends. I believe your article did much to help create a better understanding of the Brazilian situation and its young and dynamic President by the U.S. public...
Just four days after his nimble-footed defection from Leningrad's Kirov Opera Ballet Company at Le Bourget Airport in Paris (TIME, June 23), Dancer Rudolf Nureev, 23, got a job with France's prestigious Marquis de Cuevas troupe. Starting salary of capitalism's newest convert: $6,000 a month...
...Ginger. From beginning to end, said their guide, the Russians behaved like "schoolboy tourists." There were minor difficulties, of course. Pavel Erofeev, administrative secretary of the Union of Soviet Journalists, and the delegation's pin-money treasurer, refused to convert his $3,000 expense-money draft into traveler's checks, demanded cash (he got it). Teetotaler Erofeev also had transcontinental trouble ordering the soft drink recommended by Teetotaler Salisbury; Erofeev kept asking for ginger ale, but his hosts, misinterpreting his basic English, kept bringing him gin rickeys and gin-and-tonic. "The Russians were charmed by Disneyland," said...
...strategy was burned lest it fall into enemy hands. So zealous were Murchison solicitors that even after the final voting began at the Alleghany annual meeting in Baltimore, they were searching ashtrays for torn-up Kirby ballots that might give a lead to a disaffected shareholder whom they might convert. Says John Murchison: "We had a lot of friends working out of loyalty; their people were working for money...
...that point, up before the American Council rose a gentile with a controversial notion. Said British Historian Arnold Toynbee: If Jew and non-Jew alike were to give up all feelings of ethnic "apartheid," then many gentiles would convert to Judaism. "Judaism presents Jewish monotheism in its original form and not in the derivative forms in which it is presented in Christianity and Islam," he argued. "If the abandonment of ethnic reservations were complete and genuine on both sides, the traditional caste barrier between Jews and non-Jews would be likely to be broken down by more and more frequent...