Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American promise. See The Mambo Kings -- attend to its music and its sensuous moves -- and try, just try, to keep from dancing out of the theater. For two bouncy hours, whether you are a gas pumper in Omaha or an art dealer looking for new canvases to conquer, you can be a Cuban in love...
...avoided military service. That makes Clinton unelectable in November, Kerrey insisted. In an awkward affectation of Southern folksiness, the Nebraskan predicted Clinton would "get opened up like a boiled peanut" by the Republican President. But Clinton barked right back, accusing Kerrey of using "the disgraceful divide-and-conquer tactics for which George Bush became famous...
...most important, our American values proved themselves as resilient as they ever were. The "diabolical" Saddam Hussein, as nasty as he wanted to be, attempted to conquer his tiny neighbor. But the world, convinced of the injustice of dictatorial, militaristic oppression, stood firm, inspired by the quick-thinking, quick-acting United States of America. While the Japanese and the Germans dickered over whether to help out, we jumped in to defend justice, freedom and democracy...
...delights. It seemed to me that, like the cartoon commercial claimed--everyone got "A big delight out of every bite of Hostess Cupcakes." That tempting creamy middle really did seem to revitalize all those lucky enough to devour it, and gave them the requisite sugar rush they needed to conquer the playset from the older, more powerful second-graders...
...released imminently -- only to have their hopes callously dashed. "One night they said I was going home, and dressed me in nice clothes," Jenco recalls of his 564-day captivity. "When I dressed, they said, 'Just kidding,' and laughed. I started to cry." There were also divide- and-conquer ploys: at one point, Anderson and Sutherland were given crates of books and a radio, while two other captives were given nothing...