Word: conquerors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Editor L. G. Pine has always been besieged by applicants who by cajolery, trickery or even bribery attempt to crash the book. "Pride of family sometimes carries people too far," said he. "If everybody who claims to have come over with the Conqueror were right, William must have landed with 200,000 men-at-arms instead of about...
...only three British families can prove descent through the male line from the Saxons who invaded Britain in the 5th Century. These are the Ardens (one was Shakespeare's mother), the Berkeleys and the Swintons. And only three can prove male descent from the Companions of William the Conqueror in 1066: Malet (or Mallet or Mellat), Giffard, and De Marris. Even King George VI's Saxon descent is through the female line; about 100,000 living Britons can claim legitimate descent from such royal ancestry. Pine calls Edward III (1312-77) the crossroads of British genealogy. Says...
Last week the department announced that one of the worst crop-eating insects, the European corn borer, has neared the end of its reign of terror in U.S. cornfields. Its conqueror: a fly named Lydella stabulans grisescens, which is mainly responsible for reducing the losses from corn borers from $353 million in 1949 to $85 million in 1950. This year, the department predicts, the losses will be even lower...
...mural's other panel, Cuauhtémoc appears as a conqueror (which he was not), dressed in the armor of the men who beat him and wearing an Aztec crown. "He's a fighting symbol of our national independence," Siqueiros said, "of independence not yet entirely won." Added Siqueiros, who keeps up to date on party literature even when busy with a spray gun: "I see in Cuauhtémoc [a prototype of] Mao Tse-tung of China, Luis Carlos Prestes of Brazil, the leaders of the Viet Minh and the fighters for the nationalization of Iran...
...Warsaw, the greatest among the Kremlin's servants came out of the shadows-Zhukov, victor at Stalingrad, and Rokossovsky, conqueror, still master of Poland. Beside them stood Molotov, with a sharper threat than the Kremlin has yet voiced. He told the puppets from Russia's satellites that Tito could not be permitted to last long. When and by what means the U.S.S.R. would act was not disclosed in a memorable week of midsummer...