Word: converted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...simplicity, the purity of the idea has proven irresistible. After being picketed and besieged by mail, the Justice Department became the league's first convert. Attorney General John Mitchell agreed to deport the Mafia-as a word, that is. In a confidential memo the Mitchell kiss of death was to be reserved not for the Mob, but for all Justice Department employees who used the terms Mafia and Cosa Nostra officially. The league subsequently persuaded the film makers of The Godfather, which is about practically nothing but the Mafia, to excise the hated term from their screenplay. That...
...more than ten dollars-that's what collateral will probably be... the greatest con men in the world are the con men in prison, so don't take in anything you don't want to lose . . . you minister types will have to resist the temptation to try to convert everyone... drink plenty of liquids, or they may give you intravenous feeding... women, expect a vaginal inspection...
...calls for underground channels to accommodate subways, motor vehicles and sewage, plus a series of earthquake-resistant high-rise housing developments linked to commercial centers by superhighways. All would be interlaced with green belts and recreation areas. Hatano's Vision, says Minobe, is an "illusion" that would convert Tokyo into "an inhuman mass of steel and concrete...
Represent the what? The Christian Trinity? What kind of Seder is that? Not an ordinary one, to be sure. It is the Seder as seen through the eyes of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, a 77-year-old Protestant evangelical organization, whose efforts to convert Jews now stretch to six countries. At a cost of $ 100,000 for air time and extensive promotion, the board planned to show the film in a dozen major U.S. cities this week to coincide with both the Christian Holy Week and the beginning of the eight-day Passover celebration at sunset...
About 1½ years ago, for example, Boise Cascade bought 17,000 forested acres along a finger of Puget Sound near Bremerton, Wash., and laid elaborate plans to convert about a third of the property into a community of vacation homes. Pouncing on the fact that the company failed to specify that it would install a sewer system, conservationists and local residents began to complain about possible pollution. Kitsap County commissioners imposed so many conditions that the development is still stalled. "We tried to relate to the local people," says David Carey, the project manager, "but we didn...