Word: conquered
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City Manager Lilljedahl says the only long-range hope for his island is to find a way to reverse the erosion. "Otherwise," he says, "we will disappear." Cunningham insists that with all of the resources avail able, a way will be found to conquer the sea's appetite. The town is about to hire an engineering firm to study solutions, such as extending the existing jetty or building groins off the shore to reduce the impact of the waves. But Geologist Morton is skeptical. "Any attempt to trap sediment on the island only works when you have a good...
Alberta Hunter, Joe Turner and the others are survivors. They came up in the heyday of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, only to watch rock conquer the record charts and TV topple nightclubs...
...interests of individual students and faculty members." One can recognize the protofascist shortcut developing here. Instead of the democratic process of individuals influencing groups and the institution, we have the institution influencing individuals. Everywhere in Bok's essay, collective expression is abhorred; isolated individual opinion is celebrated. Divide and conquer is the rule...
...marvels of this century that the Germans did not conquer Britain in World War II. To this day, Englishmen wonder how they would have fared and behaved as an island extension of the Third Reich. The premise of Len Deighton's absorbing new novel is that there would always have been an England, even under Nazi rule...
...State won the N.C.A.A. title in 1974, but A.C.C. partisans were sorely disappointed by the second-place finishes of Duke last year and North Carolina in 1977. Any A.C.C. fan will tell you that if their teams did not get so exhausted beating the competition back home, they would conquer the country every year. Just ask anyone between Maryland and South Carolina...