Word: convertible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muslims, is a former pimp, who has been arrested for larceny in two states. Says Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, professor of social philosophy at Atlanta's Clark College and an authority on Muslims: "The prisons are made to order for Muhammad. Nine times out of ten, the potential convert was arrested by a white policeman, sentenced by a white judge, directed by a white prison guard under a white warden. The prison chaplain was white, and he knew when he got out that he could not go to a white church for help. The Negro church was not interested...
...Uselessness of Hate. Dr. Nelson defines nonviolence as neither coercion nor pacifism. It is "a weapon of the strong, not of the weak. The object is to convert not by making someone else suffer, but by suffering yourself. The very sight of that suffering will draw attention to the problem. It is a way of life, a religion...
When American began flying Boeing jets just over two years ago, it had to settle for regular jet engines. Later, Pratt & Whitney developed a way to convert the jet engines on American's planes into turbofans. At a cost of $50 million, American is converting 23 Boeing 707s and ten 720s. The Boeings that American still has on order will also be outfitted with turbofans. By next year American expects to be the only U.S. airline to have its entire jet fleet powered by turbofans...
...course, as in his effort to convert the Yard into the John Harvard Memorial parking lot, he was only halfsqrious: "It was a psychological suggestion to get Harvard to wake up to the fact that they were bringing cars into Cambridge and not providing them with parking spaces. Once they (the students) hit the city, they were stranded, at the mercy of the police." Although neither University nor city set up sentry posts on the borders, both Harvard and M.I.T. "changed all their plans to provide parking for the student body...
...were treated to an excellent example of how a few screaming idiots can throw a group of people into a panic. This was the TV coverage of the United Nations spectator demonstration by a group of Lumumba supporters. This is the Communistic psychology in action. This is how to convert a crowd of thousands into a raging mob of head-bashing, flag-burning, window-breaking "supporters" of a cause. This is our price of tolerance. When will we realize that those who are out to destroy us, or who support those who are out to destroy us, should...