Word: conquerors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back board, slammed into the front of the rim, and then dropped cleanly through the twines, the crowd could not restrain itself. Even the Merrimackians leapt to their feet and bellowed their admiration for this titan from the wheat belt. Nancy catapulted from her seat to give the conqueror a well-deserved victory embrace...
...Great, who spread the seed of Hellenism across Asia Minor, North Africa and the brow of India. In Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, Renault took the most romantic of all military heroes from his beginnings as son of Philip of Macedon through his glories as youthful conqueror...
...this time Harvard, now 7-4, played the conqueror, punishing Boston University's errors with powerful spikes and frustrating Terrier spikers with aggressive double blocking to take the match...
...ruins; she is trying to restore them to their original condition." Modern Peru has much to learn from the early natives, says Valcarcel. "The Incas had a deep sense of their dependence on their Mama-Pacha, Mother Earth. They managed it so well all over the empire that Conqueror Hernando de Soto was moved to say: 'There was never hunger known in their realm.' " -By Claudia Wallis. Reported by Gavin Scott/Patallacta
Flirting with big business carries its share of dangers; much worse, though, is the flirtation with Armageddon that underlines Tsongas's chapter on Russia. On the one hand he paints a picture of the Soviet Union, driven equally by ideological fervor and internal stress, as world conqueror. "Most believe that the Soviets would, as Khruschev claimed, 'bury us' if they were provided with a clear opportunity to do so. They are basically correct." America, by contrast, "is not expansionist today, and we seek no dominance, only stability." (When Tsongas first ran for public office we were embroiled in the Vietnam...