Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...October war had two consequences for Sadat. First, his limited success allowed him to recoup some of Egypt's national honor which had been squandered by Nasser's unsuccessful forays. Second, because Sadat could not conquer the Sinai through war, he recognized that it made sense to try to regain it through peace. His historic trip to Jerusalem in November 1977 constituted a daring and bold move for peace, for he risked angering the other Arab states in the region. But far from being solely altruistic. Sadat's initiative was carefully calculated. Because he sought peace-for reasons of both...
Amidst love and war, a strong sense of place and solid characterizations support the widely flung, convoluted plot. From Montgomery, one high-born beauty flies to Hollywood to conquer the new film industry, and the book also jumps over periods of several years. But the novel does not appear fragmented, despite disparities of time and place. These people age slowly, and do not change much, while the South continues interminably with its bloodless elegance and a seedy but lively, underbelly...
...ltalian relations. We have never forgotten that the U.S. has disembarked in Europe twice to prevent dictatorial regimes from installing themselves. The Americans did not come to conquer territory; they came to aid European democracy. And we in Italy cannot forget that in the U.S. there are 25 million Italian Americans. That is half the population of Italy. How many antifascists, how many Jews, how many persecuted people have saluted the Statue of Liberty with tears in their eyes, knowing they were entering a country that would give them hospitality and political asylum? How many peasants from southern Italy have...
...guys and bad guys in an older sense. Mesquite tends to be a bad guy. The rancher enjoys with his mesquite roughly the relationship that Wile E. Coyote maintains with the Road Runner in the children's cartoon; the rancher will try anything short of nuclear weapons to conquer mesquite. He even talks about it in vaguely military terms...
...Crimson came, saw and conquered last weekend is to sell them short. They didn't conquer the opposition, they annihilated it. Aside from sweeping their six matches against the best teams in the country, the racquetwomen individually won 37 of 42 matches. No opponent walked off with a straight-game victory against a Harvard player, but coach Jack Barnaby's charges did just that in 27 individual matches...