Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first quarter of 1960 we are definitely in the black." The company got off to a slow start on the 1960-model run. had run into heavy expenses in buying premium steel during last fall's strike, spent millions tooling up to produce the Valiant compact and to convert body shops to the new unibody construction. But now sales are climbing, reported Colbert, and all divisions, even high-priced Chrysler Imperial, are operating at a profit. Chrysler's share of the market: 16.1% in March v. 14.4% in January...
...town he would always begin in the synagogue if there was one-using it as a springboard rather than as a place to convert many Jews. For the Christian doctrine that the Messiah had been executed as a criminal was, as Paul said, plain foolishness to Greeks but a special stumbling block to Jews. Paul inevitably did better among the Gentiles-until the almost inevitable blowup, usually organized by dissident Jews. Then his personal bravery was an evangelistic asset. In three successive towns in Galatia, for example, Paul and Barnabas were expelled with violence (in one Paul was nearly stoned...
Walter Dakin Williams, 41, is a captain in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Scott A.F.B. near St. Louis. He is an enthusiastic bridge player, an amateur actor and an occasional writer. In the Roman Catholic magazine Information last week, Captain Williams (a Catholic convert since 1944) discussed his older brother Tom. When he was just a tot back home in Columbus, Miss., Tom had once dug a huge hole in the yard, explaining: "I'm diggin' to de debbil." Today he is digging still, and getting closer-or so it seems to millions who know...
...Americans, of course, who are accused of being obsessed with cleanliness and of trying to convert the world to the glory of the bathroom. But the Romans were far greater bathers. The author observes that the Baths of Caracalla covered an area six times greater than that...
...West Africa's finest. Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, who proudly claims some Jewish blood from a chance encounter centuries ago between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, has hired Israeli engineers to build 77 miles of mountain road, and is thinking of getting Israelis to convert his slum-ridden capital, Addis Ababa, into a modern city. Israeli technicians are employed by many African nations to staff hospitals, train military forces, and produce experimental crops...