Word: converted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students have complained that International Friendship has tried to convert foreign students to Christianity. Ishikawa said, "The University will not recognize the International Friendship Group because you cannot have a religious group that is oriented towards proselytizing another specific group...
...where a lot of men are advocating letting everybody carry guns, with the idea that they will be able to protect themselves. In other words, just make a civil war out of this crime wave" (1925). The energy crisis? "It's a question what we can convert these 4 billion filming stations into in years to come" (1928). The spirit behind the Rogers reincarnation is Bryan Sterling, 52, a Vienna-born freelance writer who settled in the U.S. after fleeing the Nazi occupation. Rogers died in a plane crash in 1935. Sterling began hearing Rogers quoted in the late...
...Crimson took 16 shots on net, outshooting Wesleyan by six shots. Though the booters hit three corner shots in the last two minutes of the game they did not manage to convert them into scores...
First, Broder told the press corps, the Ford family should be spared "the massive publicity that has made their predecessors a version of American royalty." Ford's succession to the presidency does not convert his wife and children into public property. Not only are their intimate domestic details none of our business, Broder insists, but they "won't help us one bit to evaluate [Ford's] work as President...
Senator Hughes is probably Coe's most devoted convert. Hughes' long spiritual odyssey carried him from Alcoholics Anonymous and Methodist Sunday-school teaching to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, a group of ministers and laymen who explore psychic phenomena. "I was looking for Christ," Hughes recalls. "I wanted miracles today. I wanted to believe in eternal life. My prayer life was constant, and I read the Scriptures, but what I was seeking I didn't find." Then in 1969 he met Coe, "a man who lived, believed and practiced the Scriptures. So, in prayer, Christ gradually came alive...