Word: convertible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montini, the church's task was to convert Communists, not combat them -and the weapons of conversion were spiritual. He invited Franciscan and Jesuit preachers to conduct Billy Graham-style crusades on Milan's streets, and in a city with more than 1,000 churches, added at least ten each year -primarily in the new suburbs. For Montini, the missionary task was to conquer through Christian love those "unhappy ones who gather behind Marx," to reassure them that, as Jesus "still loves them strongly, immensely, divinely," so the church supports "the profound need for a new and worthwhile...
...unity, our mutual love, our interior cohesion. The second will be that we love those whom we wish to evangelize: this is the great policy of the apostolate. It is not a conquest but a service. We shall not forget that the fundamental attitude of those who want to convert the world is loving it. This is the genius of the apostolate: knowing how to love...
...industrial big rich, the Klabins are relative newcomers who have benefited from the country's expanding markets, its hunger for European skills and its easy tolerance of immigrants. Four of them left Latvia for Brazil near the turn of the century and opened a plant to convert rags into paper. Gradually, the family founded or acquired other companies, and at the start of World War II were asked to build a huge paper mill by Dictator Getulio Vargas, who feared that the war would cut off Brazil's paper imports. When the Klabins objected that a U.S. gearing...
...Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad rumbles along its bottom, flanked by a few slum houses, construction storage yards, truck depots and a junkyard. Most cities would give it up as a desolate though semiserviceable eyesore. Not Pittsburgh, which has announced plans to convert the 75-acre Panther Hollow wasteland into a $250 million research center...
...spent many evenings discussing them. For the whole point of the march lay in Tocsin's elaborately worked-out plans to meet and converse with legislators and members of the State Department. Whatever the intentions of other participants in the march, Tocsin meant to convince official Washington, not to convert it by a show of strength. Tocsin risked being identified with its partners in the march simply as ' another activist group'; and in fact the press accounts largely ignored Tocsin's distinctive intentions. But the leaders--Goldmark included--were more discouraged by the reception given them at the State Department...