Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...didn't convert in the first half, that was the key to the game," Brown coach Cliff Stephenson said. "We outplayed them in the second quarter but it was just a question of our forwards not capitalizing on some openings...
...have been quiet since the spectacular tunnel escape that freed 106 of their number from prison last September, have given qualified support to the Broad Front, though Seregni has been careful to dissociate himself from their espousal of violence. One of his most popular promises has been to convert into much-needed ambulances the police vans that Montevideans call "chanchitas" (little pigs), and that have become a symbol of Pacheco's abridgement of civil liberties...
...Flannery O'Connor, who died in 1964 at age 39, that moment comes in one of her best-known stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find. A maniac escaped from prison has just slaughtered a family despite the pitifully agile efforts of the grandmother to cajole or convert him. "She would of been a good woman," the convict mumbles, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life...
...greatest problem here, in polemic loving America, is my dislike of polemics, of belligerence, of battle. Even intellectually. I do not like wrestling matches. I do not like talk marathons. I do not like arguments, or struggles to convert others. I seek harmony. If it is not there. I go away...
Japan's oil industry adds benzene and toluene to the cheaper grades of petrol, which the sun's rays convert into highly toxic gases. Compounding the ecological tragedy still further, the number of private cars in Tokyo has doubled within the past three years, and the Japanese car manufacturers, who equip automobiles exported to the U.S. with exhaust-control devices, follow no such restraints in their own domestic market...