Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank McLaughlin's philosophy of basketball matches his proselytizing spirit off the court. Harvard's new head coach is trying to convert as many people as possible to his creed of bornagain Harvard basketball while at the same time converting his players to a fastbreaking, end-to-end brand of hoop...
John Connally, 60, the Democratic convert who is trying to overcome Republican stalwarts' distrust of him as a turncoat, lately by heading a drive to raise $1.5 million to buy the G.O.P. national headquarters building in Washington. Taking a page from Reagan's book, he has also formed the John Connally Citizens Forum to raise funds for Republican candidates in 1978, and for the 80 or so politicking trips he plans on their behalf. Though charming and forceful, he could be hurt by his past alliances with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, and by his indictment-though...
...House went along with the scheme, with slight modifications but the Senate rejected it. Instead, it proposed a $47 billion package to general revenue grants and subsidies to help industry convert from oil heating to coal, and to aid energy companies in developing unconventional sources like shale oil. The wellhead-tax dispute is the most difficult issue the conference committee faces. Supporters of the tax argue that without it, the oil companies would be handed a bonanza of unearned profits because they would get much more for oil that had already been discovered and was already profitable to sell...
...Said Ron Farnsworth, whose trailer was on high ground and was spared: "I believe God took home the people he wanted to take home. They were all born-again believers. This is a victory for them." College President Kenn Opperman called the disaster "an obstacle we are going to convert into a steppingstone. This is a privilege . . . a beginning...
...PROGRESSIVE ERA in the United States was marked by a proliferation of gentlemen who made their fortunes dealing in commodities. Combining speculative acumen and luck, such celebrated tycoons as Jay Gould and John Astor made millions. These men stood out not only for their propensity to convert their wealth into meretricious symbols like mansions and Rolls-Royces, but also for the ethos they exemplified. The Goulds and Astors represented a conspicuous clan of moneyed men who spouted the ideals of voluptuous womanhood, the omnipotent buck, and masculine supremacy. Eve Merriam's play, The Club, depicts one evening in the lives...