Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kozol angered Patty during a prison interview by suggesting that she engineered her own abduction. When called to testify, he will probably try to cast doubt on her assertion that she was an unwilling convert to the S.L.A. cause. By contrast, Lifton believes young people are by far the most vulnerable to brainwashing. The profile that he has drawn of the most susceptible bears a striking resemblance to Patty: "Enormous aspiration toward social change and human brotherhood, which might be connected, under pressure, with various forms of individual guilt over the way one has lived one's life...
...affordable" houses, as a Texas land developer calls them, are cheaper to maintain and run than standard-size homes. They are particularly suited to young couples, who can later add a floor to most models or convert a carport if they need more space for growing children. Smaller homes also make sense for older couples. Dr. Joseph Murphy, a retired physician, and his wife, whose three daughters are grown, recently sold their $62,500 house in a Dallas suburb to move into a $23,500, three-bedroom compact outside the city. Says Dr. Murphy: "I've always wanted...
...decade ago when he was an assistant editor on the New York Post. "He looked like a Buddha, all blubber," she says. Swanson, a natural-food fanatic, helped prod Dufty off sweets and onto a macrobiotic diet-and last week married him in Manhattan. "He's a convert of mine," boasted Gloria as she prepared for her honeymoon, a three-week tour to promote Dufty's new health-food book, Sugar Blues...
...shall convert my soul...
Ulster's Protestants, however, have rejected all previous proposals for sharing power with the Catholic minority. They will probably refuse to accept even an emergency coalition out of fear that Britain would try to convert it into a permanent power-sharing settlement. If Westminster does not accept the Protestants' rejection of power-sharing, warned Vanguard Party official Ernest Baird, it must face the "inevitable consequences of a final conflict...