Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the spirit of good will conquer...
...political plum, the presidency (at $97,000 a year) of the Government-held General Aniline & Film Corp. When political pressures eased him out of the job in 1955, he tried to start his own planemaking company. It never got off the ground. Last week Jack Frye, still determined to conquer a new air world, was in Tucson to seek a manufacturer for a propeller plane he designed. As he was driving a rented car, a speeding station wagon ran through a stop sign and broadsided into him. At 54, the man who had flown 7,000 hours without a serious...
Russian rockets have ended "capitalism's encirclement," proclaimed New Theorist Khrushchev, as new evidence of the old line that "socialism will conquer peacefully and fully." Then he set out to reverse the 20th Party Congress' approval of Tito's "separate roads to socialism." All Communist parties must follow "one general road pointed out by Marxism-Leninism," he said, but in building socialism they may, as the Chinese did, adopt their "own peculiar forms," and proceed at different tempos...
...Yasokyo (Jesus religion) was frowned on by the Mikado. Undeterred, Clark lined up his 16 students and announced firmly: "It is my intention to awake a lofty ambition in you, and to turn you into gentlemen and Christians, so that you may control your appetites and passions and thus conquer the sin of self." The Yankee educator eased the problem of appetite control by smashing all his scholars' sake bottles, made the students promise to shun both weed and wine and to glorify God. Classes began with hymns and prayers, and the first question on Clark's first...
...always delivering his manuscript to his publisher on the promised date, but it is increasingly clear that this external discipline has been paid for with the loss of inner form and tension. Diffuse, repetitious, overly detailed, Terrace suffers badly from the fallacy that to fill space is to conquer time. When Appointment in Samarra appeared almost a quarter-century ago, it was apparent that Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald had a challenger. From the Terrace is probably the best novel O'Hara has written since Samarra; but he is still the challenger...