Word: conquerer
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...already) or go on the talk shows (she has her own now). Instead, she will take up a difficult and possibly perilous new role in 1980-co-director of the New York City Opera, the company where she made her reputation and proved that a native-born singer could conquer American opera without the Metropolitan. Sharing the directorship will be the organization's current leader and Sills' mentor, Julius Rudel...
...power; 3) magnificent failure-Imre Nagy, for example, in 1956 tried to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact and then discovered the brutal insistence of things in the Soviet tanks that arrived to iron out his impulse; 4) the satanic leap-what inspiration instructed Hitler that he might conquer Europe and destroy 6 million Jews...
...morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that his English sense of proportion and Catholic asceticism are at loggerheads with his outlandish success. Chatworth vacillates between such statements as "Conquer America-God what a shoddy ambition," and, like David Frost contemplating a bust of Emmy, "This is the country I want to impress, not the other one, and its approval is now pouring out of the slot like gold...
Warns Péladeau: "If they try to do what we are doing, I will knock them out -no contest." Even if rivals do not try stooping to conquer, the publisher plans eventually to branch out in Atlanta, Boston, Detroit and Los Angeles. The imitation Journals doubtless will have plenty of local confections on page...
...that leaves no worlds to conquer at home; in recent years much of the chain's fast sales growth has come from shopping by foreign tourists. Oddly, they include many Arabs-though the chain's top officers are such fervent Zionists that Marks & Spencer is on the Arab blacklist. Middle Eastern customers must snip the St. Michael's label out of the clothing they buy before bringing their purchases home. Still, M & S has seen fit to post signs in its main branch stores warning against pickpockets in English, French, German, Arabic and Farsi (the main language...