Word: conquere
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...only Nehru at a crossroads, but man's regretful realization that love does not conquer all and that an occasional display of naked power is required...
...dreary Russia, Moscow University (enrollment: 27,000) is one of the few visible convincers that a primitive nation is out to conquer space. Among its 420 full professors, it boasts 33 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Famed for aerodynamics and mathematics, it relegates the humanities to the old university (founded in 1755) in downtown Moscow. Its real heart is the new (1953) Palace of Science, a vast complex of 37 buildings that sprawl atop the suburban Lenin Hills on the site of what-ten years ago-was a peasant village...
Concluded the Alumni News: "Only a very few are thinking about getting out, yet only a few are smugly satisfied. There is, among these teachers, something of the attitude of the pioneer, of adventure rather than calculation. Many seem to have a conviction that there are worlds to conquer, and that, for the first time, there are means at hand to conquer them...
...really enduring lore is the local jargon of dark doings-the terms for playing hooky, teasing, scrapping. The extraordinary thing, report the Opies, is the abiding loyalty of children to prattle that seems "more vastly entertaining to them than anything they learn from grownups." TV will never conquer the favorite jump-rope rhyme of little girls throughout much of the English-speaking world...
Blinding snow storms less than 2000 feet from the top forced back the famous 1953 attempt to conquer the 28,250 foot peak in Pakistan. Scenes of the party's efforts to save one of its members, who eventually fell to his death, are included in the 90 minute film...