Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worlds to Conquer. At his two big meets against the U.S.. Yamanaka warmed up by coming within .1 sec. of matching Aussie John Konrads' world record (2:02.2) for the 200 meters. A bare two hours later, he tackled the marathon distance of 1,500 meters, set a Japanese record of 17:47.5 ("I struggled along trying to overcome weariness by thinking of the food I love"). Next, thrashing home on the last lap with furious half-strokes ("They give me speed but they really wind me"), Yamanaka lopped 2.4 sec. off Konrads' mark...
...decades before Pearl Harbor, when the population of Japan was growing by almost 1,000,000 every year, warlords used population pressure as an excuse to conquer or dominate foreign lands. But World War II defeat brought more than one remarkable change. Last week, after six years of study, the government's Population Research Institute announced that Japan's birthrate has been cut in half, and is now one of the world's lowest. In 1932 the average family boasted 5.8 children; today it has under three...
...From the bridge and foredeck of the stubby U.S. Navy fleet tug Kiowa, about 25 officers and crewmen gazed at the tropical sky in awe and anxiety. What they saw was a momentous event in the history of man's determination to conquer space...
...conditions are much improved, but refugees still live as political hostages in an atmosphere of hatred. Egypt's President Nasser still says, "The sole way of settling the refugee problem is by restoring the land, which was stolen, to its owners," but he hardly expects any more to conquer Israel. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, avoiding the inflamed question of repatriation altogether, suggests that to get the refugees off the dole, UNRWA's vocational training program should be greatly expanded. Then if UNRWA disappears, a new agency, possibly with World Bank financial backing, should give refugees jobs building...
...brawl to old-fashioned warfare. Throughout the native quarters of Bacongo and Poto-Poto, Balali tribesmen, loyal to the abbé, and the M'Boshi went after each other with everything from broken bottles to the deadly assagai-the short spear used by Chaka, the "Black Napoleon," to conquer his 19th century Zulu empire. At first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks of M'Boshi shanties on fire...