Word: conquerors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi (8-1)-ran up a 37-7 score on Tennessee, conqueror of Louisiana State, as Fullback Charlie Flowers alone smashed...
...island is a bleak South Atlantic rock ten miles long and seven miles wide. Eight months of the year it rains, three months the sun blazes down, one month it is bearable. Of 600 officers and men of H.M.S. Conqueror, stationed at the island in the early 19th century, more than 100 died in an 18-month period of hepatitis and amoebic dysentery. A rat-infested house on the atherapeutic isle served as prison for the man who had marched vast armies from Moscow to Madrid, and once ruled half the Christian world. Only a few years before, Napoleon...
...seventh year of his Administration, President Eisenhower was winning one of the greatest personal ovations ever given by Europeans. In Great Britain the outpouring was in a large sense a heartwarming welcome to an old, tried friend. In West Germany the turnout was for a onetime conqueror who had become a stout ally, boosted German pride and self-respect, assured U.S. support, guaranteed that Germany's new-found democratic freedom would sot be traded off in big-power parleys. In France this week new tumults awaited Dwight Eisenhower, not only as the liberator of 1944 but as a statesman...
...medical attention. When the next child, a girl named Untamed, contracted pneumonia, Wife Sonia begged again. "Here is your doctor," shouted Rafael, waving a .38 revolver in a gesture that marked the beginning of the long imprisonment. The baby Untamed (now 17) survived, as have Free, 15; Sovereign, 14; Conqueror, 12; Good Life, 10; and Evolution of Liberal Thought, who was born just eight weeks...
...desperate note to "Mr. Judge" was scrawled by Untamed, who knew no other word for the law. Last week, riding in a police car, the children clutched one another in terror-though Conqueror soon asked the cop for a turn at the wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping...