Word: conquere
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This bird-brained little socialite, a fellow traveler like many other Italian bluebloods, would think just what Palmiro Togliatti, alias Ercole Ercoli, alias Mario Correnti, wanted her to think. He was out to conquer an essentially anti-Communist people through bloodless, "democratic" means. In just three years he had worked a political miracle...
...eight centuries drew a net of conquest closer & closer about the capital. When Mohamed II finally succeeded in crashing Constantinople's triple walls (in 1453), the townspeople hopefully streamed for their proudest monument, the Church of Saint Sophia, assured by a prophet that the Moslems would never conquer it. "In the space of an hour," wrote Historian Edward Gibbon, "the sanctuary, the choir, the nave, the upper and lower galleries, were filled with the multitudes of fathers and husbands, of women and children, of priests, monks, and religious virgins. . . . Their confidence was founded on the prophecy of an enthusiast...
People with a penchant for writing letters will have new worlds to conquer, thanks to the International Student Activities Committee of the Student Council, whose drive for correspondents with foreign students abroad begins today...
...discovered in unexpected strength and significance. In Europe, the Church has been discovered as the one indomitable champion of justice and truth, defender of the persecuted and oppressed. . . . The quisling press of Norway paid its reluctant tribute when it declared: 'The Christian Front is the most difficult to conquer...
...child in Brooklyn, Joseph Bonavita dreaded Christmas. His father was dead; often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...