Word: conquere
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...Invade and conquer" is a term more fitting for the battlefields of the Marne than on a cross-country course but the women harriers visited Dartmouth yesterday and devastated them with a near-perfect score...
...retirement cottage for him in the oasis. "We're going to stay here, no matter what," said Ofira Seibert, a Ne'ot Sinai pioneer. "We do not accept this as Egyptian territory. This is Israeli territory; it says so in the Bible. We didn't conquer anything. We just took back what was ours...
DIED. Jean Juge, 70, Switzerland's best-known mountaineer, and former president of the International Alpine Association; of exposure; on the Matterhorn, Switzerland. Though he had scaled the treacherous north face of the Eiger, Juge's greatest ambition was to conquer the summit of the Matterhorn. With two young climbers he reached the top, then began the 14,688-ft. descent in slippery conditions after the country's worst rain and snow in 25 years. Too tired to continue, Juge stayed on the mountain while his companions went for help. When a helicopter came to his rescue...
...love with himself that it's contagious. He's very funny. I certainly don't regret knowing him." Actress Lee Grant, a longtime Beatty watcher, feels that "Warren's conquests of women are not totally successful. His percentage is about fifty-fifty. Those he can't conquer don't want to be part of a crowd?one of Warren's girls. But the Peter Pan quality in Warren is very attractive to some. He teaches them to fly, and they have extraordinary experiences with him. Then they grow up and go on, and he keeps flying. Like Peter...
Three years ago British Playwright Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests came to Broadway and failed to conquer. Though a huge critical and commercial hit in London, this comic trilogy barely limped through a six-month New York City run. It was not difficult to figure out what had gone wrong: unlike such other recent imports as Peter Shaffer's Equus and Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged, The Norman Conquests had been given an indifferent production. Miscast American actors clobbered the wit out of Ayckbourn's words. Now, through PBS's Great Performances series, The Norman Conquests has a second...