Word: converted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Volpe, at six and five in the "engine room," are Bruce Dixon and Dick Weatherhead, two of the strongest and heaviest men on the squad. But Dickson didn't start rowing till last season, while Weatherhead is a convert from Harvey Love's heavies. Wilde also has another newcomer in Jack Henshaw...
...reluctant to change it, but: "Sometimes I think we Asians are too reserved, talk too much by nuance. We ought to learn to be rude in our talk like the Americans, and get things done." Diem rarely speaks harshly of fellow Vietnamese who are Communists, because he hopes to convert them; he intends to oppose the twisted dialectic of Ho Chi Minh with the lotus of morality. Yet he recognizes that Communists are not creatures to be toyed with. "You must be sure to kill when you hunt tigers," he once said. "A wounded tiger becomes a mankiller...
...deliberately brought on for the purpose of attacking the judgment of this court, attacking the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department, in a carefully thought-out scheme to generally discredit . . . the testimony of undercover agents and former Communist Party members . . . Matusow [has] obviously made an effort to convert these proceedings into a trial of the Department of Justice rather than of the issues before the court...
...Reporting on an advertising campaign for the Roman Catholic Church that used car cards in Chicago buses, streetcars, subway and elevated trains for two months in 1954! Paulist Father Maurice Fitzgerald gave this score: of 5,339 people who responded by asking for information on Catholicism, 150 became converts. Average cost per convert, including textbooks, tests and diplomas: about $80. "There's nothing wrong with using advertising," said Father Fitzgerald. "It's basic to American life-it's the way we do things...
...child was obviously father to the madman. Hitler had a formidable capacity for divorcing himself from reality. As a youngster, he kept turning out sketches for grand new cities, planned to tear down half of Vienna and, incidentally, to convert its citizens from wine to a soft drink (a feat that the Fŭhrer, even at the height of his power, never accomplished). Sometimes, he meant to become a second Wagner, and once he started picking out an opera score on the piano ("I shall compose the music, and you will write it down," he told Kubizek...