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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worth three points, corresponds essentially to the touchdown, and consists in touching the ball down across the opponent's goal line. However, the object is to score a try as near to the center of the goal posts as possible since, after a try, the player must attempt to convert (for two points) by kicking the ball between the goal posts and over the crossbar from a point directly in front of the spot where he touched it down...

Author: By Susan M. Rogers, | Title: Rugby Has Long Honorable History, Complicated Set of Rules, Terms | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

According to Mrs. Mary Draper, one of the Department's secretaries, the Civil Defense agency felt it advisable to convert the basements of quite a number of Harvard buildings into fall-out shelters, but the University has been unwilling to sign licenses authorizing the action for all of them...

Author: By Helen L. Bogumil, | Title: Survival Stocks Placed In University's Shelters | 10/2/1963 | See Source »

Unperturbed, Sir Abubakar, a Moslem from the North, went ahead with plans to convert Nigeria on Oct. 1 from a British dominion to a republic within the British Commonwealth. Sir Abubakar will remain the real boss. The changeover will merely install a ceremonial President as head of state to replace Queen Elizabeth, who is now sovereign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Verdict in Lagos | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...time when poor students chafed and brooded under Russia's vast and manifest injustices. Ideals of universal love, liberty and truth gained currency among the crust-fed scholars of the imperial universities. It was Nechaev's peculiar vocation to batten upon these noble spirits and convert their intentions into their logical and ethical opposites-hatred, subservience and lies. With the energy given only to monomaniacs, Nechaev went from group to group demanding as a first principle the ritual assassination of the visible enemies of freedom: the Czar's officials, and ultimately the Czar himself. As a corollary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Skeleton Key | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Czar's agents and half the police of Europe were looking for at least 2,770 conspirators. When Nechaev was extradited from Switzerland, he was treated as the head of a huge conspiracy. Shackled, in solitary confinement in Peter-Paul's deepest dungeon, Nechaev was able to convert his guards to the revolution; he even convinced them that he had engineered the assassination of Czar Alexander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Skeleton Key | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

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