Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Transcaucasus. Like their American counterparts, Soviet officials seemed at first to assume that the disruption of deliveries would be only brief, and little was done to arrange for alternative sources of supply if the troubles continued into winter. Belatedly they are now rushing to get apartments and factories to convert to oil heat-there is also an effort under way to pump Soviet oil down from the main pipeline network to the north. That, however, is an enormous engineering task, and even though the gas-rich U.S.S.R. has a surplus of the fuel available to ease the crunch...
Though Espo could convert rebounds with his eyes closed, it was Orr whose spectacular rink-length dashes, beautiful set-ups and wicked slapshots captured the hearts and minds of hockey fans everywhere as he led Boston to the title after 29 years of cellar-dwelling and frustration...
...Crimson could not convert on another man-up situation five minutes later, and Parks made that missed opportunity hurt with only 24 seconds left in the period. Using defenseman Jim Trainor as a screen, Parks' wrist shot from the right circle snuck between Lau's pads to give the Huskies a two-goal lead...
After joining the party, Teng studied briefly at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and then returned to China in 1926. He rose rapidly in party ranks, becoming political commissar of the Communist Seventh Army at the age of 25. By that time he was a convert to the guerrilla strategies of Mao Tse-tung, the new chairman of the party's military committee. When these theories were attacked by other Communist leaders, Teng was ousted from office?the first of three times he was to suffer this ignominious fate...
...tripping penalties to Providence gave the icewomen a chance to pull within one, but they could not convert the two-man advantage...