Word: conquering
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...always delivering his manuscript to his publisher on the promised date, but it is increasingly clear that this external discipline has been paid for with the loss of inner form and tension. Diffuse, repetitious, overly detailed, Terrace suffers badly from the fallacy that to fill space is to conquer time. When Appointment in Samarra appeared almost a quarter-century ago, it was apparent that Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald had a challenger. From the Terrace is probably the best novel O'Hara has written since Samarra; but he is still the challenger...
...Stewart Wolf summed up: "We have found that the man likely to have a heart attack is highly competitive in his attitudes, if not in his behavior; concerned with self-sufficiency and with doing things on his own-and usually the hard way. Looking for new worlds to conquer, he takes less than the usual satisfaction from achievement, and especially he has no time to enjoy satisfaction between chores...
First of all, concluded Harris, we must conquer the American belief that borrowing for an automobile, a home, or a trip abroad is moral while loans for education, the most productive loans...
Rocketry. To a rocket congress: "When God enjoined man to conquer the earth, He doubtlessly included the universe as well. Your action is completely legitimate and praiseworthy...
Another reason for the attack on the Jews, Silverman stated, is that the segregationists are attempting to extend their base of operations in order to divert law enforcement authorities. Some Southerners claim that Jews are trying to "divide and conquer" Negro and white Christians, said Silverman, in order to justify the bombings...