Word: converter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Both teams used full-court pressure effectively the entire evening, but it seemed most helpful to the Crimson's cause. Yale held a slim, 30-28 lead at halftime and came out hot in the second half, while Harvard suffered a brief scoring drought. Unable to convert baskets, the Crimson was consequently unable to press, and the Bulldogs capitalized on the opportunity to build their 10-point lead...
Atlanta got sloppy in the second half and Charlotte cut the deficit to 81-71 on Eldridge Recasner's three-point play with 8:30 remaining. The hornets had two chances to cut Atlanta's lead to single digits but failed to convert, and the Hawks pulled away on baskets by Mookie Blaylock and Ty Corbin...
Although the Crimson came up with some qualityopportunities in front of the Huskies' net earlyin the overtime period, bad bounces and missedpasses made it impossible to convert...
They appear to get the message. "That sell you have, that's a good sell," says Grainger captain Billy Burkett, as his boat eases past the mouth of the Kanawha River. He wears a Hawaiian shirt and a faded tattoo of a bird on his arm. "You try and convert people, they'll just back away. But this little place here is our city and our town, and every city needs a parson, and you're ours...
...custody disputes and other family feuds). Yet to stave off this peril, we're giving kids coloring books that have the psychological impact of the 1950s movie Invaders from Mars, in which the child protagonist learns that anyone--next-door neighbors, even the police--may be a robotic Martian convert...