Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Douglas, 57, got into a polar mood, hauled out a furry parka and seemed on the verge of heading north. For the first time in eight years, however, Globe-Trotter Douglas will stay around the U.S. this summer, possibly because he has run out of new terrains to conquer...
...doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When he heard that the island was again without a doctor, he volunteered his services. At first, Dr. l'Haridon was delighted. In his first week he set a fisherman's broken leg, sewed up another's gashed hand, made the rounds of 50 "economically feeble...
...Huey did had a lot to do with my victory," Earl Long said. "We were more or less opposite types, however. I'm the slow, plodding type, and Huey was quick and ready at all times. He was kind of on the style of Alexander the Great. Alexander conquered the world before he was 21 and cried be cause he didn't have more worlds to conquer. Huey was like that. I've often wondered how Huey would have made out physically if he had lived to be an old man. He died when...
...more Shaw's fault than the producer's), but when Dennis King swept onstage as "Gentleman Johnny" Burgoyne, he and Actor Evans had a rousing time matching paradoxes and genteel insults. On CBS, Omnibus journeyed back 184 years to resurrect Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, with a polished cast (Michael Redgrave, Hermione Gingold, Walter Fitzgerald) that made the conceits and posturings of Restoration comedy as palatable as they are ever likely to be on television...
...methods which Furr used to conquer these character defects he now offers to anyone who can afford them. There is nothing intrinsically complicated about the Processing; it merely, involves learning to use all thirty senses that Nature provided for man's benefit. The backward souls who rely only on the basic five can never free themselves from anxieties, nervous tensions, aberrations, and illness. Because they have not achieved a proper balance between the Mind, Body, and Self, they remain ignorant of "the most powerful invisible force humanity has ever known as a material workable procedure. Only the Infinite exceeds...