Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to convert his concerns into legislation, Mondale has established an impressive record in the Senate. Now chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth, Mondale sponsored a comprehensive child development program in 1971, which would have provided $2.1 billion for health care, nutritional aid and educational assistance for preschool children. The bill containing his plan was vetoed by Richard Nixon...
...Each of them-and their wives-visited many states since early in 1975. JOHN (JACK), 29, a University of Georgia Law School graduate who lives in Calhoun, Ga., has yet to try any cases because he is too busy working for Dad. He sees it as his mission to convert all doubters...
...rationale is part aesthetic-the old buildings often have a certain charm and a nostalgic quality-and part economic. To convert a leather factory to handsome apartments in Peabody, Mass., cost $16 per square foot. "By contrast," says William Wheaton, an urban economist at M.I.T., "you cannot build any new housing for less than $22 a square foot, and it looks like hell when it is built." To make conversion even more attractive, the Federal Government will help pay for such projects...
...praised in London. The first edition of 1,000 copies was sold within two weeks, and a second printing of 1,500 has just been issued. But there has been angry criticism of what Gibbon calls a "tedious but important" matter: his treatment of religion. Gibbon himself became a convert to Roman Catholicism while at Oxford, and he returned to Protestantism only at the insistence of his wealthy father. By now a thorough skeptic, he speaks of the early Christians with amused contempt. Their martyrdoms were far fewer than religious enthusiasts now claim, he says. And he maliciously derides...
...College was similarly embroiled last winter when its president, the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, was charged with speaking disrespectfully of the Congress and Colonies. After a thorough investigation, however, the Hanover and Lebanon Committees of Safety not only cleared Wheelock of the charges but praised him for his efforts to convert the neighboring Indians to the cause of the Colonies...