Word: conquere
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...CONQUER! ASSAULT! I WAS DISMAYED AT seeing these words describe the continuing exploration of the depths of the seas. I have been awed by the underwater beauty of the ocean on just one snorkeling trip, and feel privileged to have beheld it. Surely man can leave this last frontier alone! True, there may be medicines to be found in the sea, but more people will die of starvation than by the diseases these might cure. If we are to survive, our primary focus must be worldwide population control. Where do we go after we have depleted the resources...
Nearly 150,000 Serbs like Milic spent most of last week fleeing before the army of Croatian President Franjo Tudjman. Tudjman's soldiers needed just five days to conquer Krajina, the crescent-shaped region whose Croatian Serb majority seceded from Croatia in 1991 with the help and encouragement of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Tudjman's victory last week created the largest exodus of refugees since the Balkan wars began; at the same time, the offensive shook up the region's political and military balance of power, and as a result seemed to create an opportunity for peace. The White House...
...good guys" with whom to make common cause. And there are some CIA station heads who have grown too comfortable with guys who aren't good. Deutch will need to work hard to achieve real change in the way his subordinates do business, and just as hard to conquer the cynicism engendered by similar pledges in the past. Congressional sources grumble that the Guatemala report's conclusions were the same as every other post-screw-up assessment: an assurance that no laws were broken and a promise to tell more. Then, they claim, nothing more is said...
...humiliation that I had dreaded--being "that first-year who is always sprawled on the ground"--didn't arise. Nor did the pain I had anticipated in my precious ankle. In fact, finding a door handle to hoist myself up on, I was no my way to conquer the inside stairs within minutes...
...also underscores the fact that the Kirov's best ballerina is still Altynai Asylmuratova, 34. In personal beauty and musicality, she is exquisitely refined, but she dances with a boldness that is thrilling. From the moment she leaps onstage, there is no question that this supernatural bird will conquer the evil sorcerer. No mannerisms, no attempt to extract fire out of ice. Many ballerinas have a grand attack. Asylmuratova has magic...