Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adolf Hitler and, by implication, condoned the evils done to the Jewish people. Yet this is simply wrong. As Minister Farrakhan has noted on many occasions, his statement that Hitler was "wickedly great" -- like Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and Stalin -- meant that Hitler was famous for his pernicious ability to conquer, destroy and dominate others. Furthermore, Hitler hated black people with great passion. And given Minister Farrakhan's devotion to the cause of black freedom, he would not claim that Hitler was morally great. Nevertheless, the mainstream press portrayed Minister Farrakhan as a Nazi -- that is, a devil in our midst...
...runs wild and plays out every dreamer's scenarios of fear fulfillment. But in his 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney had an even spookier idea: that sleep is when the sentry of common sense nods off and allows our enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution, Them could be communism or McCarthyism. It could be any ism bent on robbing...
With the White House awash in Whitewater, Clinton reveled in his chance to conquer new worlds, to prove that a self-described "domestic" President could hold his own in the complex realm of international politics. He brought his genial man-of-the-people act to the streets of Brussels, Prague, Moscow and Minsk, even as he tackled economic and security issues from Russia to Bosnia with wonkish concentration. Boasting of breakthroughs on Ukrainian nuclear arms and the detargeting of Russian missiles, Clinton proclaimed his trip a success. Said a senior official traveling with the President: "We absolutely did everything...
DIPLOMACY: New Worlds to Conquer...
...fevered work being done, however, science is still far away from the Brave New World vision of engineering a perfect human -- or even a perfect tomato. Much more research is needed before gene therapy becomes commonplace, and many diseases will take decades to conquer, if they can be conquered...