Word: conquere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinner, preached international tolerance to 800 foreign students ("The variety of human experience cannot be contained in a single law or a single system or a single belief"), urged Americans to back the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's fund drive ("We cannot rest in this country until we conquer it"), urged members of the Advertising Council to join him in his war on poverty ("This is a moral challenge that goes to the very roots of our civilization and asks if we are willing to make personal sacrifices for the public good...
...their own faculty cocktail parties; girls' school newspapers only print letters from juniors in Paris and results of student elections. Boys at all-male schools admit that they "begin to think of themselves as young gods," carouse and have riots, don't think girls have minds, seek to "conquer rather than love" a female...
...Crimson suffered defeat in New Haven yesterday to a perennially victorious Yalle golf squad. This looked like the team that might finally conquer Yale, but it went down, 5-2, under sunny spring skies...
Direct as Oils. Seventy-two artists have come to Tamarind to see and conquer lithography. Lipchitz' only litho bears Tamarind's chop. Richard Diebenkorn, Antonio Frasconi, John Hult-berg, Henry Pearson, John Paul Jones, Misch Kohn, James McGarrell, Louise Nevelson, Rico Lebrun and Jose Luis Cuevas have done prints there...
...yard freestyle, Crimson junior Dave Abramson looks like a good bet to conquer his Eli opposition. Yale's Joe Hill and Lynn Straw need about 5:15 to churn the distance, not fast enough if Abramson has a good day. The Crimson junior also has a chance for a first at the 200-yard distance...