Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good guys" with whom to make common cause. And there are some CIA station heads who have grown too comfortable with guys who aren't good. Deutch will need to work hard to achieve real change in the way his subordinates do business, and just as hard to conquer the cynicism engendered by similar pledges in the past. Congressional sources grumble that the Guatemala report's conclusions were the same as every other post-screw-up assessment: an assurance that no laws were broken and a promise to tell more. Then, they claim, nothing more is said...
...humiliation that I had dreaded--being "that first-year who is always sprawled on the ground"--didn't arise. Nor did the pain I had anticipated in my precious ankle. In fact, finding a door handle to hoist myself up on, I was no my way to conquer the inside stairs within minutes...
...also underscores the fact that the Kirov's best ballerina is still Altynai Asylmuratova, 34. In personal beauty and musicality, she is exquisitely refined, but she dances with a boldness that is thrilling. From the moment she leaps onstage, there is no question that this supernatural bird will conquer the evil sorcerer. No mannerisms, no attempt to extract fire out of ice. Many ballerinas have a grand attack. Asylmuratova has magic...
...newspapers and magazines, the Apollo astronauts were portrayed as heroes in the old mold: God-fearin', jut-jawed, steely-eyed missilemen, gazing into the skies they would soon conquer. These brainy jocks with their laconic C.B. chatter and their diplomas from M.I.T., Princeton, Caltech and Harvard were icons of stability in a most fractious decade. Americans looked across the Pacific and saw defeat. They looked at their campuses and saw revolt; at their inner cities and saw flames. For inspiration there was nowhere to look...
...certainly wasn't the case when the Slovenes and Croats--as well as the Bosnian Muslims--sought independence from the then very viable state of Yugoslavia. More sinister agendas seem to be at work concerning the future of the Balkans; agendas by Western powers that want to divide and conquer, i.e., feed and control, instead of accepting the reality that the Christian Serbs, for obvious historical reasons, will not allow themselves once again to be subdued by Muslim rule. Miroslav Dordic London...