Word: convert
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...Throughout the game, Brown had been dropping off two Crimson players defensively but, late in the contest, Harvard suddenly found itself unable to convert the resulting open shots. That, coupled with some questionable calls by the officials and a boisterous home crowd, ultimately
...multitude of travels and worldly experience. Raised on a dairy farm, he only collided with the moneyed classes in his university years. He has long been a defender and voice of the rural poor and has written extensively about rural Australian landscapes and the rural existence. A devout Catholic convert and fierce Republican, Murray’s work is always tinged with religious conscience and political Republican fervor, which he often uses to critique large segments of the population...
...Belgian and Dutch action did, however, net an unusual array of characters. Among those arrested was Frenchman Jérôme Courtellier, a convert to Islam whose brother trained at the Afghan camps and is currently in a French prison for terrorism-related crimes. Also apprehended was Nizar Trabelsi, 31, a Tunisian and former pro soccer player, who was lured from an errant life of drugs and alcohol by the redemption of radical Islam. Moving on Beghal?s identification of Trabelsi as the designated bomber for the U.S. embassy attack, Belgian police raided his apartment and found automatic weapons...
...safe, because these men cannot act alone. We have spoken much of Osama bin Laden, but the Taliban is his sponsor in sin. Without the Taliban’s tacit support, bin Laden would have been incapacitated long ago. Even the world’s most nefarious networks cannot convert their hatred into mass murder unless a government of sinister scoundrels buries its head in the sand and ignores the training camps and financial operations required to do what al Qaeda has done...
...renovations to the Pudding building, now slated to begin this spring (a full year later than originally planned), will convert the storied address into a state-of-the-art theater and space for student groups...