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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second half, the Crimson dominated play, allowing the Rams only one shot on goal while Harvard managed 12. The stickwomen were unable to convert the scoring opportunities, however, until Martin's last minute heroics...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Stickwomen Win, 2-1 | 10/27/1982 | See Source »

...Government should buy up most of the surplus grain and convert it into alcohol for gasohol. This would sop up the grain glut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 25, 1982 | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...indeed offer last July to lease two vacant subway tunnels to "an imaginative entrepreneur." Now Vital Records Inc. of Raritan, N.J., thinks that it has enough imagination. The company, which stores financial records on computer tapes and microfilm for 50 of the largest U.S. corporations, proposes to convert the tunnels into a vast underground filing cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Hole in the Ground Inc. | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...well, who takes out on a loved one the wickedness he intends for you. Finally, there is the worthiest of the lot, the open-and-aboveboard enemy, who declares straight out that he yearns for your obliteration. Unfortunately, people of this type are so admirable that the temptation to convert them to friends may be overwhelming. This one must resist. If it is true that former friends make the best enemies, the converse is also true, and one would hate himself for destroying a fine antipathy through sheer carelessness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Making and Keeping of Enemies | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...defensive heroics were necessary because the offense couldn't boat Minuteman, goaltender Patty Shea. Nine Crimson shots fell wide of the mark, while Shea stopped six others. The stick women got their chances but just couldn't convert...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Stickwomen Knot UMass, 0-0 | 10/22/1982 | See Source »

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