Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard came out hungry after a frustrating weekend at the North-South Invitational tournament, but it was unable to convert on several early shot opportunities. Finally, playing with a man advantage after a Brown ejection, junior Dvor Bar-Ziv scored and the Crimson took a short-lived 1-0 lead...
Unlike last week's effort, which saw the Crimson defense generate seven turnovers--six fumbles and one interception--but fail to convert, tallying only 14 points, a takeaway and aggressive special teams play supplied the bulk of Harvard's scoring chances...
...much of Saturday's game, the Crimson seemed to fall victim to the infliction with which Coach Tim Wheaton's talented squad has been grappling throughout the season--an inability to convert its scoring opportunities into actual tallies...
...guns prowl neighborhoods hunting for enemies. Sectarian rivalry among Muslims has become so fierce that some clergymen post bodyguards at their mosques to guard against bomb throwers speeding by on motorcycles. In Karachi, kidnappings of clergymen have become routine; their mosques are then seized by adversaries who try to convert the prayergoers to a harsher vision of Islam...
...true--Grammer has had terrible struggles with drugs and alcohol, and in 1996 he entered a rehab after flipping over his Viper while intoxicated.) No one expects Frasier to match Seinfeld's ratings. Still, millions of new viewers will sample the show, and NBC is counting on it to convert a lot of them. It surely will, and maybe even some of the bad fairies will turn good...