Word: conquering
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...when U.S. sprinters were rising and falling like imperfect souffles, it looked as if the title might go to a Russian for the first time. Valery Borzov, from the little Ukrainian town of Novaya Kakhovka, had beaten every international runner to face him in three seasons. If anyone could conquer him by the time the Games began, it seemed it might be the "Southern Arrow," Pietro Mennea, a native of Barletta on the heel of Italy's boot. Or perhaps stocky Jean-Louis Ravelomanantsoa of the Malagasy Republic. Borzov remains unbeaten, but at the trials for the U.S. team...
...peritonitis (a potentially fatal inflammation of the membrane that lines the abdominal cavity). It was then that the Governor was very near death. To be effective, antibiotics must reach bacteria through the bloodstream. But because the abscessed tissue lacked an organized blood supply, the antibiotics could not conquer the infection. So the doctors irrigated the abscess with an antibacterial solution. This meant squirting it in and then sucking it out through the wound drain-sites, several times...
...been so continuously disruptive as those at the Free University. Its militant students and teaching assistants repeatedly come storming out of their favorite Kneipen (taverns) to break up classes. "They don't want learning," complains Political Scientist Richard Lowenthal, himself a onetime leftist youth leader. "They want to conquer the Free University and turn it into an institute for party training...
...Adrian IV, an English Pope, granted sovereignty over Ireland and its Celtic inhabitants to England's Henry II. For the next four centuries, the English tried sporadically and without success to conquer the Emerald Isle. In 1601, however, an army of Elizabeth I defeated the last of the great Roman Catholic earls, and their lands were turned over to English and Scottish colonizers of the Protestant faith. Much of Ireland's history since then has been a record of bloodshed and trouble. Some milestones: 1690. King James II of England, a Catholic convert, was defeated at the Battle...
Society serves its men better than its women. But Anna-and the author -are large-spirited enough to conquer mere resentment. A greater problem, and one that, unlike Anna, many free women do not care to acknowledge, concerns love. The fact is that Anna's lovers leave her not because of fights or faults, but because their need for her is gone. Anna's need remains-to a painful degree. An old-fashioned dilemma indeed for a free woman, and Lessing does not miss the irony. At the end of the book Anna says ruefully, "Here lies Anna...