Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...root cause was England's historical lust to subjugate the Emerald Isle. Ironically, that ambition was sanctioned in 1155, when Pope Adrian IV gave sovereignty over Ireland to England's King Henry II. During the next centuries, the English made sporadic and mostly unsuccessful efforts to conquer the island. Hegemony was finally established during the Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth's army beat the last of Ulster's great Celtic earls, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. The vast lands of these Catholic noblemen were forfeited to English and Scottish "undertakers...
Then her mood began to change: "Damn it, I'm going to conquer this island. I won't let it beat me . . .1 had been feeling so sorry for myself that I was unaware of the beauty that surrounded me." Recently she sent a letter home via the local fishermen, who stop by occasionally to deliver supplies and make certain that Jane is all right. In the letter she wrote: "I feel very old and very young. I'm more determined than ever to stay here." She reports she has learned to bake bread...
...When we conquer on a world scale, I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of large cities...
Star Treks. This Einsteinian concept of "time contraction," if proved to be a real physical effect, eventually could help man conquer the vast distances to the stars. Aging more slowly at high speeds, astronauts could make trips that would take longer than their normal terrestrial life spans. If their spacecraft traveled close to the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.), as a matter of fact, so little time would elapse for the astronauts compared with the experience of people back on earth that they might return home to meet their own great-grandchildren...
...angel." In thin disguise, Tony is really a writer and Natalie is his muse. Tony's demands on himself have no limit. He wants to find a way "through which paradoxes could be held." There are other goals. How to defeat the logic imposed by language. How to conquer the limitations on writing imposed by the fact that only a comparative solitary will write at all. As for the rest of humankind, why is it that "there is no place, except on a tightrope, where there is room...