Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will no longer convert foreign-held dollars into gold; temporarily, at least, the dollar will no longer be the foundation of international monetary dealings, as it has been since...
Lost Illusions. Lecturer David Solomon, a black who is a convert to Orthodox Judaism, told the campers: "Our problem as Jews is that we've always been the humanists, the internationalists. We are the ones with faith in the world, and we are always the last to lose our illusions. That is what happened in Germany." Sam Shoshan, a leading member of the J.D.L. executive board, told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We want to encourage the belief that fascism is coming to America and that the Jew is not safe here. If there is just a slight fear...
...called on to treat a 22-year-old college student who had been experiencing increasing difficulty walking, running and climbing stairs. An examination failed to uncover the origin of the student's inability to control a drooping tendency in both feet. But conversation did. The youth, a recent convert to yoga, told Chusid that he often sat on his heels for periods of up to six hours while chanting. The position placed great pressure on the peroneal nerve, which winds about the head of the fibula (outer leg bone) just below the knee. After the youth agreed...
...disposal, the job was unusually tricky. Because radio signals travel at the speed of light-186,000 miles per second -Fendell's commands took 1.8 seconds to reach the camera. Another three seconds elapsed before the image arrived back in Houston (the extra time was needed to convert the signals into a standard TV picture). Thus, before he or his assistant, Al Pennington, 27, saw the camera's response to their com-NASA mands, a total of nearly five full seconds had gone...
...Jews have the truth in as rich abundance as man is allowed-if they want it. For Judaism is at the very heart of the star, its burning center. Christianity forms the "rays" of the star, or "the eternal way" toward its heart. Like Rosenzweig, Jews need not convert to Christianity in order to find God; pagans do. Jews are a timeless people, apart from history, overarching eternity as God's Chosen to guard the truth. Christianity, acting in history, is the pagan's path out of time into eternity...