Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cartoons of transformation, fantasies of sudden empowerment. Popeye eats spinach. Clark Kent enters the phone booth. The 97-lb. weakling sends away for the Charles Atlas course. Shazam! The creature that a moment ago looked mortal and ordinary and vulnerable becomes a master of the universe. He can fly. Conquer evil. Get revenge. He is born again, this time as a kind...
...they feel they can attach themselves to an innocence and joy. I believe that dreams come true: that you can do what you want to do. I don't mean that in a Rocky III kind of way either. I don't mean you have to go out and conquer the world and be a star. I mean, I came from a boring sort of middle-class life-style and a big family and I wasn't born with a perfect body...
...incident illustrated the awkward way that the White House has handled several sensitive issues surrounding the President's upcoming trip. James Hubbard, deputy director of the 2.6 million- member American Legion, accused Reagan of "ignoring Allied graves . . . while recognizing members of the Third Reich who fought to conquer the world." The White House announcement added insult to injury for American Jews who were already offended because Reagan had vetoed a stop at the site of a concentration camp during his six- day German tour. "Visiting the gravesites of one's former enemies is an act of grace," said Nathan Perlmutter...
...past three years. If he is correct, such vigilance will eventually do more than simply save money. More important, it will restore the public support for a stronger defense that has been squandered by repeated revelations of the waste, fraud and abuse that Ronald Reagan pledged to conquer...
Since he has been in college, Egan has learned to cope with the tension of competitive swimming. While he admits that the pressure hangs over his heads round the clock for up to several weeks before big meets, he has learned to conquer it by the time he has to step up on the starting block...