Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the lettermen come the revivalists. Boniface Baker, the easygoing grandson of a Fox convert and one of De Hartog's compromisers, suddenly catches the old fire again. In his mid-50s, Baker frees his slaves, parcels his indigo plantation among them, and takes off for the frontier. One solid measure of the book is that it makes this radical gesture oddly plausible...
Hope flickered briefly for Ireland's Catholics in 1689, when deposed King James II of England, a convert to Rome, landed in Ireland to organize a war to reclaim his throne. On July 12, 1690, James was defeated in the Battle of the Boyne by his Protestant successor, William of Orange?the beloved "King Billy" of Ulster Unionists (those favoring union with Britain...
...backed by gold or something equally scarce is still anathema. Another problem will be the nearly $50 billion in dollars that have left the U.S. in recent years and flooded Europe's central banks. Any long-term monetary agreement must find a way for dollar-choked nations to convert their holdings for something besides gold, since current U.S. gold reserves cover only a fraction of dollars held abroad...
...sure, New Delhi is not above criticism. The Indians have seemed entirely too eager to convert the situation into geopolitical profit by ensuring that Pakistan would be dismembered. Whatever the motives, however, both India and Pakistan stand to lose far more than they can afford. As a Pakistani general, a moderate, put it last week while the conflict worsened: "War could set India back for years-and ruin Pakistan...
...national crime most revolting, that must, sooner or later, bring down upon us or our posterity the judgment of Heaven." Although from time to time, men like Sanborn protested and there were some white men who respected the Indian. Brown's point is that these men failed to convert their words and feelings into the types of action needed to prevent the destruction of the Indian, failed too often to act at all, and were themselves more outnumbered than the Indians. The great, silent majority, no less enraptured by the melodies of Manifest Destiny than was Germany by the rhapsodies...