Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nepal, Milwaukee-born Father John Dahlheimer, 57, a Jesuit missionary, counsels refugees fleeing Tibet in search of religious freedom. Though he and the 366 other Christian workers in this officially Hindu land obey the law against proselytizing, their example has inspired more than 3,000 Nepalese to convert since...
...with his wife became a member of the Roman Catholic Church. Once a hearty drinker and womanizer, Muggeridge somewhat stunned his readers in 1969 with the admission that he had become a practicing Christian. But in his later years, he has longed for a final truth. His decision to convert was inspired in part by the saintly example of Mother Teresa. Finally, he said, there was "a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that has long been ringing, of finding a place at a table that has long been...
...larger and quicker Cornell ice women jumped on each opportunity Harvard gave them, while the Crimson failed to convert on several scoring chances in the game...
Harvard tried to contain UMass with a man-to-man defense, but the hoopsters didn't block out underneath and UMass dominated the boards. When it did get the ball, the Crimson failed to convert its opportunities. Harvard's transition play rarely led to a Crimson basket...
...singular virtue of Gandhi that its title figure is also a character in the usual dramatic sense of the term. As portrayed by Ben Kingsley, 37, an actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company making his film debut, Gandhi must age some 50 years. In the process he must convert himself from the vigorous, somewhat arrogant, somewhat dandyish young lawyer who first caught the world's attention with his nonviolent resistance to South Africa's racial laws, to the saintly martyr who finally captured the world's conscience as he willed a nation into being. It is impossible...