Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of persisting in a course that might well convert their extremist perceptions of ethnicity into a dangerous ethnic cleavaging of life at Harvard University, would Mr. Hardie and Ms. Reisman consider the following alternatives. For Peter Hardie, withdrawal from Harvard College and enrollment in the blackest of the blackest college he can locate. For Hope Reisman, Jewish seclusion in her own Jewish abode off campus...
...Fluor had skilled engineers ready to do the work. The jobs were immense: a $1.4 billion contract to build twelve pumping stations and the Valdez terminal for the trans-Alaska pipeline, for example, and a $1 billion plant for the South African Coal, Oil & Gas Corp. Ltd. to convert coal into oil and petroleum products-the world's largest such facility...
...once waspish Malcolm Muggeridge, a recent convert to Christianity, writes movingly in his book Something Beautiful for God of putting her on a train in Calcutta...
...moments of crisis. Moriarty (Leo McKern) is set up as a math wizard, for example, but his blackboard is covered with a second-grader's mistakes. When he conducts an auction of the purloined parchment, he is reduced to counting on his fingers as he tries to convert francs into pounds. Later Moriarty and DeLuise (playing a hammy opera singer) squabble over the document in a manner more appropriate to four-year-olds disputing possession of a pail in a sandpile-nose twisting, cheek pinching, hair pulling-than to grown-up spies...
Before the bishops can convert others to their cause, however, they are going to have to do some educating within their own flock. Admits Bishop James Rausch, general secretary of the conference: "Many of our people aren't sure what the church's positions are." Actually, the church's positions clearly add up to adamant opposition to abortion. Many Catholics, however, are relatively tolerant of abortion in such cases as rape, or when the future mother's life is endangered...