Word: conquere
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Governor Nelson Rockefeller was aware of all that-and deeply frustrated as well by the state's continued failure to conquer the problem. Thus last week, he stepped before the state legislature and called for a drastic drug program...
...begins to understand how a couple of thirties CCNY kinds could find drama and purpose in romantic radicalism, and how their social lives never allowed that brand of radicalism to mature. Paul and Rochelle did hold just complaint. Their poverty and their struggle to conquer it had to bemuse their pride and sensitivity; only their occasional college freedom, and radical larks could give them the belief that they were free to live as they pleased, within economic limits, whether or not times were propitious. If their sins afflicted their children, so did those of their parents afflict them. They were...
...sets mean a winner. Roughly one-third of the district-Cape Cod and the Nantucket Sound islands-is Yankee Republican. Another third-the depressed onetime whaling capital of New Bedford-is ethnically Democratic. The South Boston suburbs stretching from Weymouth to Plymouth are fiercely independent; the candidate who can conquer them while holding his own bloc takes everything...
...always prided himself on "reacting spiritedly when insulted or scorned." As a lieutenant in the Army, he had, in fact, been threatened with a court-martial for refusing to sit in the back of a bus. The toughest task of his career, he once recalled, was learning "to conquer and control myself...
...boxing ring provides a perfect focus for the psychological concerns of Fat City. The sport's appeal to its audience consists largely in the opportunity it affords the spectator to project his own hostilities onto the aggressions of the fighters. Each contender can do what the spectator cannot: conquer his weaker opponent with sheer strength and agility in face-to-face combat before a crowd obligingly roaring its approval. It is also true that the fighters and managers use one another. Each boxer's value is proportional to the number of other boxers he can defeat. For the trainer...