Word: convert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...initially planned to put off the decision to convert until after college--when she'd be mature enough, Allen says laughing. She also felt that coming out was already enough to deal with. Last spring, she says, she realized that it was no longer enough to be a "Jew by default...
Members of the softball team had initially threatened to take action against Dartmouth in July 1991, The Dartmouth said. The complaint charges that the team had a verbal commitment from college officials to convert softball to varsity status over a three-year period, but officials later reneged...
Yesterday, Harvard just did not convert offensively with the same potency that characterized its winning streak. The Crimson got the shots but not the goals...
...what she believes are stone tools that are at least 30,000 and perhaps more than 50,000 years old. Says Guidon: "I was the first person to be surprised. I believed the standard theories." Each successive radiocarbon test, though, bore out her initial findings. She became a convert -- and an untiring champion -- of the pre-Clovis theory...
...meaning that the producers think it insufficient to examine the central role that dance plays in primitive societies; they must also slam-dunk colonialism and Christianity for trying to suppress native cultures. Missionaries have much to answer for, but it is surely not unreasonable that they would seek to convert tribes from religions that encouraged cannibalism (as in Polynesia) or the ritual mutilation of female sex organs (as in much of black Africa...