Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, month after month, Sikorsky toiled, sketched, planned and studied in his personal struggle to conquer the air. He built another helicopter. He built a frail little fixed-wing airplane. They refused to fly, too. He built still another airplane, the 52, and after days of taxiing and trying the controls he got its flimsy, bicycle-wheel undercarriage off the ground, and began trying to learn to fly. After eight minutes in the air he tried a turn; the S-2 crashed from a height of 80 feet and was completely ruined. Sikorsky limped away from the wreck...
...keeps constant check on his Ivy competitors and their admissions policies. He is willing to battle, but has perhaps taken on more competition than he can hope to conquer...
...ruled, was the moderns, e.g.. his favorite Prokofiev and Khachaturian, and such technically demanding romantics as Rachmaninoff. With other music, they sometimes complained, he lacked "tonal sensuousness." But without hesitation, they placed him among the top young pianists of his time. Pianist Kapell looked for new fields to conquer, took himself as far afield as Europe. South America, Israel, Australia...
Driberg's Gandhi-like approach, that love will conquer all, is both appalling and dangerous. Sweet, lovable Daddikins Malenkov must be laughing himself silly to read that "the Soviet Union is far more self-sufficient [than Germany] and therefore not intrinsically expansionist . . ." How does our M.P. reconcile this view with the Russian occupation and economic exploitation of the Communist satellite nations...
...strains of ". . . we'll conquer old Eli's men . . ." blasted across the Yale campus. It was loud; it was discordant; it was three in the morning; but it was the red-coated Harvard band. Windows in college after college flew up. Paper and profanity flew out. Yalies in pajamas, Yalies in shorts poured into the streets, rubbing eyes and yawning...