Word: conquerors
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...hundred years from now/ Your tale will still be told, I vow." The prophet is Queen Elizabeth I, and she is celebrating Sir Francis Drake, His Daring Deeds (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $12.95). So is Roy Gerrard, who imaginatively charts the rise of Britain's supersailor from cabin boy to conqueror of the Spanish Armada. Although the author-illustrator employs rhymed couplets and a suite of exuberant watercolors, he is textbook-true to history, pageantry, royalty and, most important, the man who "took his leave, with sails unfurled,/ to circumnavigate the world...
...solo by one of Parker's lesser disciples, and it never quite explains how Parker enriched the language of sound. Still, the film was well received, and Bird was expected to win one of the top prizes. Instead, the Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Pelle the Conqueror, and Bird was given lesser awards for its sound track and its lead actor, Forest Whitaker. Eastwood dutifully mounted the Palais stage, and though he stood tall, his dignity was stooped. The ceiling of expectations for his film was too high, the reward for lending his easy magnetism to Cannes...
Ever since William the Conqueror compiled the Domesday Book in eleventh century England, census officals have had to face the fact that they cannot possibly include everyone in a national roll call. The problem has continued through the ages up to today, as current government people-counters realize that the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial national head-count is in no way completely accurate...
...moment, most soldiers are coping relatively well. "If you don't behave as strong as a conqueror, you can't survive there," says a 23-year-old stationed in the West Bank. "You have to cut out thinking, be strong and do nasty things." To those troops who felt humiliated at having to stand by helplessly while Arabs taunted them, the beatings policy has served as a welcome antidote. Army casualties in the occupied territories have been light, but Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon, attempting to capitalize on the uprising, killed two Israeli soldiers while seeking to attack Jewish settlements...
...want to be conquerors," says Shmuel Goren, Israel's Defense Ministry coordinator for the occupied territories. Most of his fellow citizens no doubt share that sentiment. But Israel remains a conqueror, a country of 3.5 million Jews and 740,000 non-Jews that gained a quarter of its current territory by war in 1967 and ever since has ruled 1.4 million Palestinian Arabs by force. In just six days of fighting, Israel occupied 2,270 sq. mi. of land on the West Bank of the Jordan River, as well as the Golan Heights and the finger of Mediterranean seacoast known...