Word: conquerer
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...village of La Clusaz she was very close to people. Even when busy she would take time to ski with the kids, to help them, to share what she knew. What struck everyone about R?g?ne was her incredible willpower, determination and tenacity?despite her many accidents?to conquer her fear, come back and win. Only a very few champions ever manage that. To me, she was like a daughter. I think R?g?ne had it in her to win a gold medal in Salt Lake City. I would have been overjoyed...
...varying temperaments and levels of sanity, to the realization that they do not have to stand for the ill treatment they receive. Chief Bromden, the half-Native American narrator of the play, does not speak or show signs of consciousness until McMurphy helps him realize that he can conquer the injustice surrounding...
...December 1936, in an event now known as the Xian Incident, he sent his troops to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek, releasing him two weeks later when Chiang promised to work with the communists to battle Japan. The promise resulted in a decade of cooperation that positioned the communists to conquer the entire Chinese mainland in 1949. Zhang spent the next 55 years under house arrest, mostly in Taiwan, but his reputation as a patriot grew. As democracy arrived in Taiwan in the early 1990s, he was given increasing freedom and began to spend more time in the U.S. with...
...order to become a cog in the capitalist machine, you might consider strapping on your six-shooter and carving out your own interdiciplinary realm in a still-fertile fielda of science. But you had better hurry, as we humans feel it is our sacred duty to explore and conquer all that is unknown in what might be considered a scientific Manifest Destiny. So if you want to get yourself your own little homestead, well you had better hitch up the wagon before The West becomes domesticated, and riddled with post offices...
...love strong enough to conquer all obstacles? Is the love between two people enough to keep them together regardless of their restless natures? Can this love be more important than personal adventure and growth? Nadine Gordimer, South African winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, elegantly but confusingly tackles these questions in her new novel The Pickup...