Word: conquering
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...electorate did not mean to make some perverse endorsement of malice or falsehoods. Rather, voters realized that the motive of legislation like the Sedition Act was to silence the critics of those in power, and trusted that in time truth would conquer error. Occasionally, Government tested the principle anew. When the New York World and Indianapolis News alleged corruption in the development of the Panama Canal in 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered his Attorney General to sue. The courts quashed both cases before they could come to trial...
...across the streets of New York missing school, cheer leading practice and Sunday night dinner? And, to get right to the point, how much energy and ambition can we take? At every daunting obstacle these wonder kids hesitate picturesquely for a moment or two and then leap ahead and conquer. Hooray for the American success story. Hard work (and long legs) will get you everywhere...
...night, when the train stations were "deep, empty, odoriferous-'like pits of hell''' and when the freaks-came out. Soon she became a regular at Hubert's Freak Museum. Staring at the hideous figures, she felt fear run its course through her body and she was determined to conquer...
...worsened his condition at a time when disagreements among pact members require vigorous diplomacy. The treaty that established the alliance is up for renewal, and Hungary and Rumania are known to oppose Moscow's desire to extend the agreement in perpetuity. Said a State Department Kremlinologist: "You don't conquer recalcitrant allies from a wheelchair...
...sing their chanteys." Keenan has even unearthed a songbook once issued by a youthful industrial firm, which included a spirited ditty called Ever Onward Ever Onward: "Our reputation sparkles like a gem/ We've fought our way through and new/ Fields we're sure to conquer too/ Forever onward...