Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...converted to the Roman Catholic Church in my adolescence. But I never had a convert's zeal. I never acquired that instinctive deep structure, that internal universe, that is installed in the cradle Catholic from the start -- the spiritual DNA. Half in the church, half out, a kid who read too much Graham Greene and Thomas Merton, I embraced, it may be, the surface things: the brocaded rituals, the Latin Mass of those days, the rich atmospheres...
...Crimson established its dominance early when Gudeman scored fourteen minutes into the first half. The freshman midfielder was able to convert on a pass by co-captain Beth Morgan, sending the ball just past the goalie into the lower right corner...
Crimson mistakes littered the game right from the start. In the first quarter alone, freshman Colby Skelton bobbled the ball on the opening kickoff and Harvard failed to convert for a first down on successive third-and-one and fourth-and-one situations. To make matters worse, Nathan Tyrell fumbled a punt, giving Bucknell the ball on the Harvard 34-yard line and an easy march to the end zone. After two more Harvard downs, signal-caller Vin Ferrara forced a ball into traffic and was picked...
...misplacing its own carefree illusions. It could be argued that 1963 marked the true end of the 1950s. While Phillips' campers frolic, the U.S., having ignored Eisenhower's departing warning about fighting a land war in Asia, is getting pushy in Vietnam; rock 'n' roll is beginning to convert youthful masses to the worship of the free libido; and Lee Harvey Oswald is ordering his rifle by mail...
...amendment to federal election laws allowed members of Congress who were elected before 1980 and left office before 1994 to convert unused campaign donations to personal use. All told, retiring lawmakers have received a $10.5 million windfall. A partial accounting...