Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love conquer shady politicking? To this burning question, Mr. Ace's plodding plot finally provides a predictable answer (yes)-after considerable stilted dialogue and wooden acting...
...Most extreme example: Fifth Avenue's Ricardo's jewelry advertisement: "BURSTING FURY -Atomic Inspired Pin & Earring. New fields to conquer with Atomic jewelry. The pearled bomb bursts into a fury of dazzling colors in mock rhinestones, emeralds, rubies and sapphires. . . . As daring to wear as it was to drop the first atom bomb. Complete...
...Such improvements have preoccupied the Strachey clan before. John's eminent cousin, the late Historian Lytton Strachey, wrote of Elizabethan Sir John Harington: "The gay young man looked about for new worlds to conquer. . . . Suddenly inspired, he invented the water-closet...
...Snapper. Lean, red-thatched Ed Crump surveyed it all with a calculating and untroubled eye. He had come to conquer. He got a job with a harness firm; eight years later he bought the owners out. He was elected to the city council, picked up a nickname, "The Red Snapper," and was known as a "real ring-tailed tooter" at either a fight or a frolic...
...Roosevelt was a friend of Mexico and although you have disappeared the Mexican people will not forget you. Roosevelt, your memory will remain eternally in my heart. How rightly one laments your heartrending disappearance . . . Roosevelt, you knew how to conquer the heart of the Mexican children...