Word: conquere
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...body puts sharp limitations on how high he can go and how fast he can be accelerated to supersonic speeds. He has reached what Space Physiologist Hubertus Strughold aptly calls "the vertical frontier." To help conquer the frontier is the task of a young and bustling specialty: aviation medicine...
...Court has recognized, implementation of its ruling will be difficult. The mentality that bred segregation has not yet died. For legal decisions cannot eliminate apathetic, even hostile state legislatures. And they can only slowly conquer the fear that creates men like Benner C. Turner...
...Canadian National Exhibition had advanced her $2,-500 for expenses and contracted to pay her $7,500 more if she reached its Toronto exposition grounds. At the last minute, two Canadians decided to join her. One was Mrs. Winnie Roach Leuszler, 28, the only Canadian woman to conquer the English Channel. The other: blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 16, a 119-lb. Toronto high-school girl whose only claim to swimming fame was that she had been the first woman to finish in a marathon swim in Atlantic City in July. Neither Winnie nor Marilyn stood...
While the boss was in Spain on a recent state visit, it appeared, Paulino had undertaken to further his ambitions by "sowing discord" to "divide and conquer" the armed forces. Item: Paulino humiliated a Trujillo favorite, Rear Admiral Lajaro Burgos, "calling him by the name of Napoleon, and not by his own true name." Explained El Caribe: "Assuming that Communism works by fomenting hate, stimulating the instincts of revenge and of conflict between individuals ... it has to be said that the policies to which Señor Anselmo Paulino Alvarez has been so boldly and poisonously dedicating himself are policies...
Stubborn as Sin. Desio's was the sixth attempt to conquer the "killer mountain," as K-2 is often called. The Duke of the Abruzzi tried and failed in 1909; so did the Duke of Spoleto in 1929. Always before, men were driven back by cold as severe as Everest's, gales that can stop a man's breathing, rock falls that roar like siege guns, flinging boulders the size of trucks...