Word: convert
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...