Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking the padre straight in the eye, I asked, "What do you think about people who come from another continent and interfere with the beliefs of the people living in a country, trying to convert them to another religion...
Officials Bill Quinn and Robert Dupuis called two overlapping penalties on the Crimson in the last two minutes of the middle period, but the Big Green skaters failed to convert although they held a two-man advantage for 55 seconds...
...trouble, from the industry's point of view, is that energy-conscious motorists are switching to buying small cars much faster than the automakers can convert their plants to turn out more of the gas-saving little autos. Standard-sized cars are still piling up, unsold, on dealer lots. The industry now has about a 75-day supply of unsold cars, mostly big ones. Since big-car sales have gone down even faster than small-car sales have risen, total auto volume so far in 1974 has dropped 25% below last year's pace. General Motors' total...
Culture Talks. Thereafter, he operated with no restraints at all - not even from a board of directors. He bet his own money on his hunches. If he lost big when he tried to convert an opera star like Mary Garden into a movie star, he won big by importing exotic Vilma Banky from Europe...
...Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in a Japanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As might be expected, the author shows a deep respect for the teachings of Zen. What makes his account extraordinary, how ever, is that the book contains none of the convert's irritating certitude, and no suggestion that the reader rush to follow the author's example...