Word: reconverting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jesuits rode full gallop into their new assignments: convert the heathen, reconvert Protestant Europe. Francis Xavier hopscotched from India to Southeast Asia to Japan, a country that had never before heard the Christian message. More than any others, the Society of Jesus stemmed, and sometimes reversed, the tide of Protestantism in France, the Low Countries and Central Europe. When Ignatius died in 1556, his order was nearly 1,000 strong and had dispatched its apostles to four continents...
...Brooklyn, Rudolf Wiesen, a store designer, caught the city of New York trying to reduce the time limit on the 10¢ parking meter in front of his office from two hours to one hour. After Wiesen reminded the city's traffic department about the freeze, the department agreed to reconvert other parking meters around the city to pre-Aug. 15 prices. > In Hopkinton, N.H., some 30,000 New Englanders flocked to a county fair over the Labor Day weekend. After visitors complained that this year's $2 admission charge, 50¢ more than last year's, was an unfair fair fare...