Word: convertability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swinging in a huge bucket a quarter-mile across a canyon, said he has read TIME for 15 or 20 years, even borrowed copies of the Atlantic Edition from friends on a 1947 visit to Norway. Allen Johanneson, with six or seven TiME-reading years, has made a TIME convert of his ex-schoolteacher wife...
...What we tend to forget," said a Tory campaign manager, a brainy and broadminded Yorkshireman, "is that Labor also rests on its record. We tend to forget that a grumbler is not necessarily a Tory convert. We tend to forget the vast blocs of solid Labor voters-the millions of workers who don't realize that it was Hitler, who beggared the world of goods, and not the Socialists, who created the conditions for full employment...
...Convert. In Brookhaven, Miss., a thief broke into the Rev. W. Landon Miller's study, stole 710 typewritten sermons and a tape recorder...
...Jerome W. Goodman's exploit is reminiscent of a similar expose conducted two years ago of the Communist-dominated youth festival in Budapest, Hungary. At that time the Red satellites were anxious to convert the free world, and entry was far easier...
...Moslems defeated both, swept forward so rapidly that they could not possibly stop to convert or even to govern the people they conquered. They applied the Aylah treatment: tribute and religious freedom. In some periods, the tribute from unbelievers poured in so fast that the Caliphs were not interested a conversion. The religious leaders of Islam formed a body called the Ulema, learned in the Koran and the Sharia [law]. They tended to be manuscript-eaters, verbal hair-splitters, not a type useful in missionary work. So far as the official religious leadership was concerned, the victories of Islam might...