Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent convert to the relaxed approach is Argentina. Last March, Buenos Aires did not allow Fiat to negotiate with the guerrillas who had kidnaped Oberdan Sallustro, the boss of its operations in Argentina; Sallustro was shot dead. But the government raised no objection last week when the Dutch electronics firm, Philips, paid a reported $500,000 ransom for the release of its Argentine manager, Jan Johannes van de Panne, who was kidnaped by some 35 guerrillas as he drove to his plant outside Buenos Aires. Evidently the regime has taken a second look at the advice offered by former President...
Originally the Institute was planned as the memorial for John F. Kennedy '40 at Harvard, but after talks between President emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28 and Senator Robert Kennedy '47, it was decided to convert the old Graduate School of Public Administration, of which President Kennedy had been an overseer, into the memorial. Harvard agreed to pay for the JFK School of Government with its own money while the Institute of Politics, a subdivision of the School, would be funded separately with the $10 million endowment...
Great runners, good quarterbacks, and a promising receiver should convert the Restic play book into lot of touchdowns, if they can figure out the plays a little faster than they did last year...
...major national political convention: Anne Armstrong, co-chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee. Indefatigably amiable, perpetually smiling, cello-voiced, she was charged, appropriately, with winning over Democrats to the Republican ticket. Her speech was perhaps the best offer a Republican ever made a Democrat. She herself is a convert. Brought up in upper-crust Creole society in New Orleans, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar, she remained a Democrat until-it must be said-she married the very model of a Marlboro man, sandy-haired Tobin Armstrong, whose Texas ranch is measured in miles rather than acres. She has thoughts...
...campus, and Molloy guaranteed that he could dress him so that a student would punch him in the nose. Dressed in dark blue clothing "just like a cop," the recruiter ventured back onto campus-and caught a fast one in the chops. Molloy collected his fee and won a convert...