Word: conquere
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...moon, spins something referred to as the universe. Although Ursa Major and Mars are a long way from earth, a rocket will probably reach the moon some time this year. The moon and what spins beyond it would be reached considerably sooner if this nation's attempts to conquer space were better organized and better financed...
...designer John Beck has managed to conquer the problems of the tiny stage satisfactorily, giving an illusion of depth and width. Peter Salisbury provides his usual excellent lighting job with suitably magical effects at the first act incantation scene...
...wonderfully well-the little men with the monstrous obsessions, the secret lives of the wicked Walter Mittys. In Kwai and in The Prisoner he suggests that, as well as any living actor, he can interpret a specifically modern sort of hero-the man who is not meant to conquer the world but to battle within himself...
...covered, and is pondering a biography of his longtime friend Sinclair Lewis. Next year he plans to go Inside Australia. It is virtually the earth's last unguntherized land mass. By the time the book comes out, explorers of outer space may have given him new worlds to conquer. Frets Gunther: "What disturbs and upsets me is that there is not time or freedom or energy enough to do all the things I would like...
Despite the somewhat ignominious departure maneuver, which promises to become habitual, Nasser lost no time in seeking out a rostrum in Cairo to sound the new glories of the U.A.R. and its leader. In Cairo's Republic Square he thundered: "Always the Arab peoples were able to conquer invaders whenever they joined and stood together in one army-as in Saladin...