Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still has the power. There are worlds yet to conquer. He will dominate our lives right up to the end. But there has been a subtle change. The political carnivores of Washington have gotten the message that his power is finite...
...formidable foe, yet she inexplicably fails to kill Castaneda when he bungles an encounter with her. As suddenly as she is brought up, La Catalina is mysteriously dropped after one chapter. For his final showdown with her, Castaneda will need an "ally," a spirit he must conquer for his personal use. In the last pages of the book, Castaneda meets his ally but does not tame it. Finally, Don Juan tells Castaneda that he will not explain anything more to him; the tutelage is ended...
Governor Nelson Rockefeller was aware of all that-and deeply frustrated as well by the state's continued failure to conquer the problem. Thus last week, he stepped before the state legislature and called for a drastic drug program...
...begins to understand how a couple of thirties CCNY kinds could find drama and purpose in romantic radicalism, and how their social lives never allowed that brand of radicalism to mature. Paul and Rochelle did hold just complaint. Their poverty and their struggle to conquer it had to bemuse their pride and sensitivity; only their occasional college freedom, and radical larks could give them the belief that they were free to live as they pleased, within economic limits, whether or not times were propitious. If their sins afflicted their children, so did those of their parents afflict them. They were...
...always prided himself on "reacting spiritedly when insulted or scorned." As a lieutenant in the Army, he had, in fact, been threatened with a court-martial for refusing to sit in the back of a bus. The toughest task of his career, he once recalled, was learning "to conquer and control myself...