Word: conquering
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...person who can afford $10 for a good time but pays $20 for it, by her standards, is buying nothing but $10 worth of unhappiness and worry. She implied that love can conquer all, however, including budget troubles...
...Alfred H. Barr Jr., research director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, in a comprehensively illustrated monograph out last week (Picasso, 50 Years of His Art; $6). Its 330 pictures were the work of a restless giant in a restless era, who constantly invented new worlds to conquer, then tired of them...
...member of the Fabian Society or had been consciously influenced by it. Webb, now 87, had long ago (1929) overcome his aversion to titles of nobility and reluctantly consented to become Baron Passfield (though the late Beatrice refused to become Lady Passfield). But Shaw, looking for new worlds to conquer, at 90, sent the meeting a telegram...
...conquer some ready-cooked stupe...
Taking issue with Neibuhr's central thesis that Russia means to conquer all of Europe "strategically and ideologically," Friedrich said, "I don't think he could marshal conclusive evidence in support of such a contention. If you want to believe it you do." "I don't think there's going to be a war," he continued. "We'll have one scrap after another with the Soviet. Both of us are new at being the world's greatest powers, and it will take a long, long time to evolve a patter of mutually acceptable relations...