Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American and allied planning that the Soviets must be forced to contend with the very real possibility that an attack on Europe would trigger a punitive response from American weapons...Extended deterrence has been a way of making it more difficult for the Soviets to pursue a divide-and-conquer strategy toward NATO: it has been a way of "coupling" American and West European defenses...But as a result of their buildup in the late sixties and seventies, the Soviets drastically reduced and may have eliminated the American margin...It seemed now that the Soviet Union might soon...
...with the spare elegance of a waiting room in limbo; the back wall suggests an opaque view of the hell one creates with other people. Quentin's inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues in fair and foul weather, his bitter first wife and Maggie, love conquers nothing but the lover. It drains him, proves him inadequate, drives him toward madness. Suffocated by Maggie...
...with new challenges to face Evans says she will no doubt relish the opportunity to tackle and conquer fresh, new goals. As Tarsitano put it. "Being a risk-taker helps...
...know Americans are more confident about things, that we're headed in the right direction, more than any time since 1972. We know that exists." Thus, he explains, "what we're trying to say is 'Elect us because we can conquer the challenges ahead.' This is not a negative message. It's saying, 'Here's what...
...nation's army happened to traverse their rocky frontiers. They were such good fighters, in fact, that in the days before chocolate and watches the confederation's main export was the mercenary armies they hired out to shore up the troops of nations that had given up trying to conquer the Swiss...