Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personalities the movement embraces, that elegant and curmudgeonly Convert Malcolm Muggeridge will be on hand to share the lectern with the two women...
Some critics claim that the only cook who really needs a food processor is one who must feed a dozen lumberjacks three times a day. Others say they actively enjoy chopping and slicing. But James Beard, an early convert to the processor-and co-editor of a recipe book distributed with the Cuisinart-scoffs at "kitchen snobs who will not accept modern technological perfections. I'm perfectly certain were Escoffier or Montagne alive today, they would be happy to use a food processor." Indeed, many serious cooks say that short of a Bocuse in a bottle, the best friend...
...have caused the administration to lose faith in its ability to work with a feisty Congress was shown in a remark by energy chief James R. Schlesinger '50 to the effect that the administration would be willing to compromise still further by giving increased tax credits to industries that convert to coal, returning a larger portion of revenues from the proposed energy tax to the oil industry, and allowing regulated natural gas prices to rise to $2.00 per thousand cubic feet instead of the proposed $1.75 ceiling...
Like Vanauken, Lewis started out an atheist-one reason his approach to religion appeals to outsiders. After years of struggle he "admitted that God was God" and knelt to pray one night, "perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." At that point, two years before the Whipsnade Zoo outing, he was a theist but not yet a Christian. Prodded by friends, including a fellow Oxford don, Author (Lord of the Rings) J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis subsequently decided that the Christ story is a myth like other great myths, but with the "tremendous difference that it really happened...
...convert concedes that many readers will remain skeptical. "People may think I'm kooky, but this is what happened," he says. "It's not a publicity stunt. I have asked God for forgiveness for anything I have done to hurt anyone. I've been all the way to the bottom. There's only one way to go now, and that's up. I'm going to be hustling for the Lord...