Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II, or a subcareer as visiting professor at Stanford-quite explains the paucity of her output (one novel and fewer than 30 stories). All her life Katherine Anne fought a mysterious writer's block. Jailed for protesting the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, she failed to convert that experience into literature in 1927, and failed again for the 25th anniversary. It was not until 1977 that a small book emerged; The Never-Ending Wrong was her last publication. The Nazis she met in Berlin in 1931 materialized in Ship of Fools, a project that took more than...
...squash isn't really harder. It's a bigger court, as well as a slower ball, and certainly it is a game of greater finesse. But certainly in American squash you can run around." Thernstrom, who is often sighted hastening from lectures with two rackets in hand, is a convert from jogging, which he quit because, as he says. "I lack the moral stamina to make myself do it. It's boring...
...prepares to decide later this month whether to approve the University's planned conversion of Craigie Arms to mostly luxury housing. Harvard has come under some of the strongest criticism it has seen in a decade. And the occasion affords the rent control board its best chance yet to convert that criticism to actual investigation...
...study of individual House races shows that discontent over Reagan's handling of the economy played a major role in most Democratic gains in the industrial Midwest, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Texas. One Pennsylvania showdown featured Eugene Atkinson, who crossed the aisle last year to become a Republican convert at the height of Reagan's popularity. The voters resoundingly turned out the turncoat (61% to 39%) when he attempted to defend Reaganomics to the unemployed steelworkers...
...more tangible reports that Hetrick was planning to use his Mojave hangar as a place to off-load coke and marijuana from incoming aircraft. He had even boasted about a Colombian coke connection, federal agents learned. They were also told that Hetrick was looking for a U.S. bank to convert his illegal profits into a legitimate savings account more easily. The DEA, Customs Service and FBI agreed to set up a joint undercover operation to make a case against Hetrick...