Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Teddy DeVita, 17, whose struggle to conquer a rare bone marrow disease in an 8-ft. by 9-ft., germ-free isolation room at the National Cancer Institute won him wide attention as the courageous "boy in the glass cage"; of complications from repeated blood transfusions; in Bethesda, Md. Teddy was nine when he developed aplastic anemia, which destroys the body's ability to fight off any infection. His life in his sterile sanctuary, portrayed by John Travolta in a 1976 TV film, was poignant: he sometimes threatened to walk out to virtually certain death, but mostly...
...defunct A.B.A., whose rafter-clearing leaps and fluid moves earned him the sobriquet Dr. J (as in, watch him operate). Only after a merger of the warring leagues and four years of playoff eliminations did Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers dominate the West and Erving's 76ers conquer the East...
...Soviets will probably want to follow a policy of divide and conquer," Pipes said, adding that they will attempt to "dismember" the country rather than crush it directly...
...Asians were not allowed to benefit from Harvard's affirmative action programs until Third World students forced their recognition as a minority group. The support of other Third World groups in this effort represented a consolidation of unity and the surmounting of the age-old tactic of "divide and conquer," while highlighting the need for a greater centralization of Third World activities...
After a rather uneventful 6-1 whitewashing, Meyer fell upon hard times as Alison Hibbert regained her composure, drubbing Meyer, 6-2. But the skillful Crimson veteran returned to her first-set style to conquer Hibbert, 6-3, for the match...