Word: convert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then things finally came together for Harvard While holding Dartmouth to just two points in six minutes, the cagers tossed in 12 of its own to convert its biggest deficit of the game into its biggest lead...
Osborne was born in Bangkok to British parents; his father, a somewhat eccentric professor, spent much of his time trying to convert Christians to Hinduism. Osborne earned a doctorate in chemical engineering and worked for Shell Oil Co. before quitting to become a computer consultant and industry gadfly. His self-published book, An Introduction to Microcomputers, sold so well (300,000 copies) that he set up his own trade publishing company, which McGraw-Hill later bought...
...their defense, conservative Protestants acknowledge they are trying to win converts, but say they are simply offering a choice, and point out that those who change their religions do so freely and happily. The Morses, for example, have never put pressure to convert on students who stay at their hostel in Chiang Mai. "By the time they leave," says young Bob Morse, "they know what the Bible says and can make their own decision...
...interior of Irian Jaya (formerly Dutch New Guinea and now part of Indonesia). Dillinger, 51, and wife Lorraine, 48, work among Dani tribesmen cut off from the outside world by crocodile-infested, malarial lowlands and mountain ranges that soar to 13,000 ft. It is against Indonesian law to convert any person who already has a religion, and 88% of the country is Muslim. But the government does allow Christian missionary work, Minister for Religious Affairs Haji Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long as it is only aimed at the animists." When Dillinger arrived 24 years ago, he remembers...
Then the Dillingers went to work to convert tribesmen who relied on charms and fetishes to fight the evil spirits. Lorraine, a nurse, used penicillin to cure yaws and iodine to treat goiters. The medical treatment and the Dillingers' radio seemed miracles to members of the Stone Age tribe: they thought the disembodied voices belonged to their ancestors...