Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fernando Gerassi, like a number of Spanish intellectuals including Ortega y Gasset, went to Germany to study philosophy. "I wanted to find out the meaning of life," Gerassi recalls. After studying with such men as Heidegger and Husserl he was disappointed, "I didn't find anything but speculations." To conquer his disappointment he went to Munich to study art history with the great art historian Wolflin. When it came time for him to submit a thesis, Gerassi fooled them again. "I decided to become a painter," he says, "and Wolflin really liked painting so he encouraged...
...leaders, announced: "Morocco must realize that at the end of its evolution it will remain tied to France." The Sultan retaliated by always meeting Juin unshaven and by committing himself wholeheartedly to the Istiqlal, smuggling leaders into the palace, sometimes in trucks delivering groceries. In the classic divide-and-conquer style. Juin assiduously cultivated the antagonism of the mountain Berbers for the urban Arabs. He made a special ally of rich old El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, who claimed to command some 300,000 fighting Berbers...
Closing the Ring. The surgeon's dogged efforts to conquer these defects turned into one of the great campaigns in medical history. Despite revolutionary progress in all surgery during the '30s-thanks to improved anesthesia and transfusion techniques plus antibacterial drugs-older surgeons still recoiled from the heart. Younger men braved its defenses; with rare exceptions heart surgery is still dominated by young men. After the first premature frontal attacks-nearly all patients died -the pioneers began to close the ring around the heart by working on the nearby great vessels: as one of them puts it, "circling...
Kaye also interviewed six-year-olds in the audience. When one ran crying from his questions, he observed "I conquer children...
Dividing to Conquer. The slogan of the Kadar regime is "Order, Peace and Collaboration," but its strategy has been to divide the country by cracking down hard on industrial workers and intellectuals and building up the peasantry, who gave the Russians relatively the least trouble last October. Rakosi had been tough on the peasants ("Every Kulak is guilty of something"), but Kadar has redistributed the national income in favor of the peasants, even made the hated farm collectivization program voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being...