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Word: convert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first 10 minutes of the second half. With the game still knotted at 50-50, senior co-captain Jessica Gelman (14 points, 9 assists) hit Janowski with a pass underneath the basket in transition. Janowski sank the lay-up, drew a foul, and made the free-throw to convert the three-point play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Cagers Capture Ivy Opener Versus Dartmouth, 81-68 | 1/6/1997 | See Source »

...this time, of course, she was no longer a typical voter. Thanks to her fame as a TIME cover subject--and her potential to become a high-profile convert--she found herself engaged in long phone conversations with the head of Dole's state campaign several nights' running. The Perot people sent her a book. The Clintonites never called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...team that wants to win needs to convert consistently on the five-on-four. With the dry spell broken, the team's new challenge is to keep the power play momentum going -- which point man Bobby Orr might know a thing or two about, wouldn...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: Power Returns to Bright -- Orr Not? | 12/7/1996 | See Source »

Having killed off two penalties in the first period, Harvard tried to create its own power-play opportunities in the second. However, the Crimson man-up unit continued to struggle, as it could not convert in the three extra-man chances they...

Author: By Bo Williams, | Title: Men's Hockey Outlasts Brown | 11/20/1996 | See Source »

This is just the kind of entrepreneurial boldness that makes us such avid readers of the biographies and autobiographies of people who get rich quick, and one wonders why it has taken Hollywood so long to convert such types from shadowy antagonist--their usual role in thrillers--to shiny protagonist. One's next thought, of course, is the hope that Ransom does not signal the beginning of a trend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: BUSINESS AS UNUSUAL | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

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