Word: converted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regarded Washington pollster Peter Hart: "It's the best thing Ford has going for him, and he knows it." Ford staffers do not disagree. They are purposely running negative television ads-like the ones that feature fellow Georgians running down Carter's record as Governor-not to convert voters to the President but to undercut his opponent and depress the vote...
...next ten minutes, Harvard failed to convert on an astounding string of point-blank shots, including an indirect kick from only five yards out on which the Crimson booters failed to even get off a shot. Finally, Mike Lohrer dribbled through half the Williams defense and beat the second-string goalie for Harvard's first goal...
...rural folk tale, this musical is very tongue in chic. Self-mocking humor, stylish performances and a stomping vitality convert the original Eudora Welty novella about a Mississippi Robin Hood into a Broadway romp...
...company town. They felt self-conscious in the industry. Moss Hart, the New York playwright, once told Clifford Odets (not one of the Ten but persecuted later) that Odets's Hollywood experience had persuaded many writers to turn left and go west. "You mean," Odets asked eagerly, "my plays convert them?" "No," Hart said, "your salary...
...contrary, Vorster's strategy seems to be to complete the original South African blueprint for "separate development" of the races known as apartheid (Afrikaans for "separateness"). Hoping to perpetuate the political power of the whites, who form only 17% of the South African population, the regime plans to convert nine tribal homelands within South Africa's borders into "independent states." South Africa's blacks will be assigned citizenship ? including the 10 million who live not in the homelands but in "white" South Africa. Simultaneously, they would be stripped of their South African citizenship...