Word: convert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second halves of both games, the Crimson had 20 shots on goal, outshooting the other team by at least five. Most of them came in the last ten minutes with the booters frantically trying to get the equalizer, pressuring the opposing defense, but failing to convert when it counted most...
...rest of the first half, Crimson booters continually pressured the Brown defense but failed to convert on any of several good scoring opportunities and the score at intermission stood...
Just 32 years ago, The Seven Storey Mountain appeared in American bookshops. Within weeks the autobiography became the most unlikely bestseller in American history-600,000 copies in the original clothbound edition. The author, Thomas Merton, was a young Roman Catholic convert who had scuttled a promising literary career to seek the austere and silent cloister of a Trappist monastery. But the career pursued him. At the time of his death in 1968 at the age of 53, the monk who dwelt in a hermitage at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky had become the most celebrated religious recluse in the Western...
Harvard's lack of penetration resulted in only six penalty corners, usually a prime scoring opportunity. Chris Sailer did convert two of the six into shots (Yale was one for 12), but otherwise the stickwomen treated the Bulldog circle like a minefield--traversing it only when necessary, and then with the utmost care...
...University first began its attempts to convert the four-story brick apartment building 21 months ago, but the city has so far refused to grant the necessary permits...