Word: conquering
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...film and in text of selected problems, right down to examples: a real small town, for instance, that could be rehabilitated under Hubert Humphrey's rural-redevelopment plans; an actual river that could be cleaned up according to Edmund Muskie's decrees in his long fight to conquer water pollution...
...challenge for the championship. They were young. They had the rabid backing of their fans. They made a habit of come-from-behind victories. And, headed by those happy Hungarians, Running Backs Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, they professed the kind of fraternity-brother togetherness that promised to conquer...
Regan is now looking for new worlds to conquer. Says he: "We are studying ways that Merrill Lynch might employ life insurance. And obviously estate planning is another possibility. Then there is real estate development." Whatever new directions the company may take, it is now clear that Merrill Lynch, long regarded as the supermarket of the investment business, is close to becoming Wall Street's first one-stop shopping center...
...root cause was England's historical lust to subjugate the Emerald Isle. Ironically, that ambition was sanctioned in 1155, when Pope Adrian IV gave sovereignty over Ireland to England's King Henry II. During the next centuries, the English made sporadic and mostly unsuccessful efforts to conquer the island. Hegemony was finally established during the Reformation, when Queen Elizabeth's army beat the last of Ulster's great Celtic earls, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell, at the battle of Kinsale in 1601. The vast lands of these Catholic noblemen were forfeited to English and Scottish "undertakers...
Then her mood began to change: "Damn it, I'm going to conquer this island. I won't let it beat me . . .1 had been feeling so sorry for myself that I was unaware of the beauty that surrounded me." Recently she sent a letter home via the local fishermen, who stop by occasionally to deliver supplies and make certain that Jane is all right. In the letter she wrote: "I feel very old and very young. I'm more determined than ever to stay here." She reports she has learned to bake bread...