Word: conquerors
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...scene had an almost eerie unreality. There was Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, architect of his nation's most staggering defeat, beaming to the crowds with the confidence of a conqueror. And there was an equally ebullient Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny, outwardly unconcerned that his latest Middle East adventure was dissolving like a Sahara mirage. When the smiling Presidents met at Cairo International Airport last week, Podgorny took Nasser's hand and held it high in a boxer's victory gesture. It was almost as if a dazed Sonny Liston, having just been counted...
...last ten days, Brown has been brilliant and awful. Down 5-0 to Crimson conqueror B.U. at the Arena, the Bruins stormed back and just missed the upset of the year...
...prison-and almost surely to death. The cage in which he rode had been especially designed and constructed to contain a greater prize: the erstwhile Ghanaian ruler, Kwame Nkrumah, who before his overthrow a year ago, called himself "the Christ of our day" and "the Conqueror of imperialism...
...last week that Harold, last of the Saxon kings, became the most disastrous name in British history. On Oct. 14, 1066, in a green field seven miles northwest of the coastal town of Hastings, his 6,000-man army was cut down by the Norman invaders of William the Conqueror. Harold was slaughtered, and the language, civilization and blood of Englishmen were changed forever. Englishmen have been celebrating the anniversary all year-in the traditional manner of today's Britain...
...enter an archery contest in which the first 1,066 winners would be rewarded with Kenwood Chef food mixers and Arrow shirts. And, in ads boosting its Neo-Medrone Acne Lotion, the Upjohn pharmaceutical company captioned a drawing of William on horseback as follows: "Who conquered William the Conqueror? No one. But he still worried a lot. About his acne. It was unconquerable...