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Word: converted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, when Powell provided the deciding vote in a 5-to-4 ruling upholding suspects' rights to legal counsel while being questioned by police, he was rebuked from the bench by Chief Justice Warren Burger. Burger waspishly declared that with "only one convert" the court might some day restore "rationality" by voting the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Man in the Middle | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...little humility is supposed to be good for everyone, but it is sort of pathetic to watch Travolta try and convert his image for Olivia Newton-John, and it is totally predictable that whatever he does, he will win back sweet little Sandy. Only Sandy decides to go part of the way around to Danny's side before the marriage is complete. Unfortunately, the sight of Olivia Newton-John poured into a tight black outfit with her hair frizzed out and a cigarette rather tenuously balanced off her lower lip is too much to take...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: The '50s Were Never Like This | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

...been imprisoned against his will at three different locations. His mysterious captors not only wanted to break up his marriage, he said, but to talk him out of his new-found religion. He had been the victim of a bizarre and forceful "deprogramming" technique, he claimed. Levitt was no convert to a weird new cult, however, but a Jew who had lately converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Gentile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Missing Bridegroom | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Christine says that Ken's mother once demanded that she convert to Judaism and, when rebuffed, said she would do anything to stop the wedding. The father's defense lawyer, however, says the Levitts opposed the wedding not because Christine was a Gentile Evangelical but because their son was unstable. Weeks before the original wedding date, a man who said he was with the Jewish Defense League called the pastor who planned to marry the pair and warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Missing Bridegroom | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...will eventually succeed the aged and ailing Apostle Herbert? Recent Convert Rader appears all-powerful, but he is not a minister and has numerous enemies. "Many people fear Stan immensely," says a veteran headquarters official. An anonymous "Committee of Twelve" has sent a vicious anti-Rader letter to all Worldwide ministers. Rader's candidate to take over may be the newly installed director of the church's ministry, C. Wayne Cole. But Garner Ted should not be counted out. Says Professor Joseph Hopkins of Pennsylvania's Westminster College, author of a recent book called The Armstrong Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Strong-Arming Garner Ted | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

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