Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...
When one group of students aged 14 to 16 were asked what they would like to do, the majority gave answers like this: "Want to be a strato-navigator"; "Want to conquer the Arctic"; "Would like to build a special radio station to contact Mars . . . want to fly there...
...bull fight, its violence, bloodshed, and death. The bull is not the hopeless underdog most American think it is. In Lea's books, the bull becomes the brave animal whose fighting spirit is the prime example of valor. Man must muster all his skill, artistry, bravery, and strength to conquer the animal, and he does not always win. In painting the skillful technique which brings the bull to his death, Lea creates a picture of violence and beauty--a rare combination that makes bull fighting a great art to some people and makes "The Brave Bulls" an unusually interesting book...
...great want to conquer" began to gnaw Milton Berlinger no more than five years after he was born in 1908 in a Harlem tenement. He was the fourth of five children of the late Moe Berlinger, a quiet, sickly shopkeeper, and his vigorous, iron-willed wife Sarah (now Sandra). The great want sprang first in young Milton's mother, who helped earn the family living as a store detective. One day she borrowed 20? carfare to take the five-year-old boy to an amateur contest after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton...
...personal life is not nearly so rich. Sensitive despite his brashness, he has been left deeply insecure and distrustful by his career as a child in a rough-&-tumble struggle. "The great want to conquer" has left him neither time nor depth for other interests, except the spectator sports and an occasional game of billiards. He goes almost everywhere with a bolstering entourage of yesmen, who run his errands and remind him at frequent intervals that he is terrific. In 1941 he married Showgirl Joyce Mathews, a striking blonde who got a Reno divorce six years later. Still friendly, they...