Word: conquered
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...Adrian IV, an English Pope, granted sovereignty over Ireland and its Celtic inhabitants to England's Henry II. For the next four centuries, the English tried sporadically and without success to conquer the Emerald Isle. In 1601, however, an army of Elizabeth I defeated the last of the great Roman Catholic earls, and their lands were turned over to English and Scottish colonizers of the Protestant faith. Much of Ireland's history since then has been a record of bloodshed and trouble. Some milestones: 1690. King James II of England, a Catholic convert, was defeated at the Battle...
Society serves its men better than its women. But Anna-and the author -are large-spirited enough to conquer mere resentment. A greater problem, and one that, unlike Anna, many free women do not care to acknowledge, concerns love. The fact is that Anna's lovers leave her not because of fights or faults, but because their need for her is gone. Anna's need remains-to a painful degree. An old-fashioned dilemma indeed for a free woman, and Lessing does not miss the irony. At the end of the book Anna says ruefully, "Here lies Anna...
...film and in text of selected problems, right down to examples: a real small town, for instance, that could be rehabilitated under Hubert Humphrey's rural-redevelopment plans; an actual river that could be cleaned up according to Edmund Muskie's decrees in his long fight to conquer water pollution...
...challenge for the championship. They were young. They had the rabid backing of their fans. They made a habit of come-from-behind victories. And, headed by those happy Hungarians, Running Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, they professed the kind of fraternity-brother togetherness that promised to conquer...
Regan is now looking for new worlds to conquer. Says he: "We are studying ways that Merrill Lynch might employ life insurance. And obviously estate planning is another possibility. Then there is real estate development." Whatever new directions the company may take, it is now clear that Merrill Lynch, long regarded as the supermarket of the investment business, is close to becoming Wall Street's first one-stop shopping center...