Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only a couple of months ago, he had a lot of company in his opposition to the Princeton-educated, cigar-chomping, 6-ft. 7½-in. Volcker. In his fierce determination to conquer inflation, Volcker restricted the growth of the U.S. money supply so sharply that interest rates rose above 20%. The policy worked, but many thought it contributed mightily to the most punishing recession since World War II. The depth and duration of the slump put a severe strain on Volcker's relations with the Reagan Administration, cool to begin with. The Chairman, a nominal Democrat...
...Fairbanks party that show Chaplin dancing with a globe. Something like a decade later, that little improvisation becomes the basis for The Great Dictator's strongest image, that of a power-mad tyrant's lustful pas de deux with the symbol of the world he intends to conquer. From The Professor he salvaged, three decades later, the flea circus routine, now more delicately rendered, that is one of Limelight's comic high spots...
...volcano last week showed contempt for those trying to conquer its fireworks: it released a poisonous cloud that swept workers from its slopes, showered gray ash on the nearby town of Giarre and sent a new river of lava toward the Rifugio di Sapienza, a tourist shelter it had damaged earlier in the spring. Engineer Abersten, weary but unbowed, warned that another precision blast would be required to make the diversion an unqualified success. Said he: "I don't want to be defeated by Etna...
Andropov's response to the scientists was released only three days after a letter from nun had been received by Samantha Smith, 10, of Manchester, Maine. The fifth-grader had written Andropov to express her concern about the dangers of nuclear war. "Why do you want to conquer the world, or at least the U.S.?" she had asked the Soviet leader. Andropov assured Samantha, whom he described as "a courageous and honest girl, resembling in some ways Becky, Tom Sawyer's friend from the well-known book," that Moscow wanted a relationship of peace, trade and cooperation with...
Newcomer Tom Burlinson stars as Jim Craig, a mountain boy orphaned in the timberlands of Australia's Great Divide. Craig returns to the high country to conquer the wild horses responsible for his father's death, and to win the love of Jessica, the spirited daughter of wealthy rancher Harrison (Kirk Douglas). On the way he encounters a gang of drunken cattlehands who try first to humiliate, then to kill, him; a legendary horseman who rides whistling through mountain-passes as coyotes howl in the background; and Spur (also Kirk Douglas), a grizzled prospector with a pegleg...