Word: convert
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...chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Once a rabid segregationist, Thurmond is now quite accommodating to the blacks who make up one-third of his constituency. He has hired blacks for his staff and helped appoint a black federal judge in his state. But he is not exactly a convert to the civil rights movement, and he wants to amend the Voting Rights Act to provide a way that states can avoid federal clearance of new election laws. If that cannot be done, then Thurmond and other Southern legislators want a renewed act applied to all 50 states. Civil rights...
Blount has sporadically pursued a much less successful political career. A longtime supporter of Richard Nixon, he was appointed Postmaster General in 1969 and used his business background to help convert the leviathan U.S. mail service into a nonpolitical, Government-owned corporation. In 1972 he made a quixotic attempt to unseat Alabama Senator John J. Sparkman, but garnered only 33% of the vote. Last year he was national campaign chairman for John Connally's aborted presidential...
...transformed the way most people felt about the military, MIT's Science Action Coordinating Committee sponsored conferences, newsletters, and rallies. A panel appointed by the president of MIT investigated the role of the Laboratory and recommended fewer military contracts. Student activists attempted to pressure the Lab to convert to non-military research, and at one demonstration the door of the Lab was set on fire after it was reported that napalm was made inside the building. Ultimately in May of 1971, as a political compromise, MIT divested itself of Draper Lab, though some MIT faculty and graduate students still work...
Attempting to convert Draper Laboratory to non-military research might at first seem naive--an impossibility. But while conversion is certainly not a simple process, it can work. Between 1961 and 1977, some 68,000 defense workers across the nation lost their jobs because of plant closings and major contract losses. But with federal assistance, 78,000 new non-defense jobs were created. And during the 1970's, the Boeing Corporation converted a large portion of its military production to the manufacture of subway cars and other forms of civilian transportation...
Although it is not exactly the word of God, the Living Bible is useful in helping to convert young people and nonchurchgoing adults to Bible reading...