Word: conquere
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...young girls of Catholic Action, in a ceremony closing the Marian Year, the Pope wrote that he was "firmly confident" that with God's help the Roman Catholic Church would conquer the forces of evil "in a time perhaps shorter than humanly foreseeable...
...CONQUEST OF EVEREST, by Sir John Hunt, was the high point in mountain-climbing literature, an impressively solid description of the planning and the kind of men it took to conquer Everest...
Inside their gaily-colored cocoon, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons manage to show a little life before succumbing to the extravagant boredom that surrounds them. In the opening scenes Brando almost seems convincing as the brash young general who knew he would conquer Europe, while Miss Simmons is winsome without being sticky. But by the end of the picture--and this perhaps may be a very subtle intentional change--Brando is only a powerful bore, mouthing bad aphorisms in an Old School accent, while Miss Simmons' archness has become a bit wearing...
...life. It is a key to his,thought. He hated hypocrisy, and so did his principal literary heroes, Julien Sorel. the ambitious provincial, Lucien Leuwen, the morose bourgeois, Fabrizio del Dongo, the romantic idealist. But to all of them and to all the young men who set out to conquer the world, Stendhal's message was plain: be insincere. It is one of the piquant paradoxes of the diary that Beyle offers the advice in all sincerity...
...about Gunga Din is the movie's willingness to take itself with a block of salt. Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Victor McLaglen form a sort of Her Majesty's Three Musketeers in India. After a certain amount of intrigue and a little less suspense Din helps them to conquer a mysterious native tribe. The plot is exactly the same as it was 15 years ago, but more important Gunga Din is still good entertainment and Din himself, a better man than Fairbanks...