Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also believes that the U.S. grossly overestimates Peking's power and its ability to threaten let alone conquer other Asian nations. He thinks that the U.S. blundered by waging a worldwide campaign to isolate Red China (though he concedes that China did a great deal to isolate itself), and he regards as "silly" and a "sham" the U.S. policy of recognizing the Nationalist regime on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China. Reischauer's prescription: grant immediate diplomatic recognition to Mao Tse-tung, seek Chinese admission to the U.N., and declare publicly that the U.S. wishes harmonious relations...
...difficulty with the play is that the characters are greedy without having Faust-like desires. A day or so at the biggest department store in Chicago and some time rubbing necks with Truman Capote's gang would delight them. They don't want to conquer the world; they want to join some clubs...
...stone-grey East German city of Wittenberg, where Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, last week banners proclaiming SOCIALISM WILL CONQUER THE WHOLE WORLD overhung the main streets. At kiosks, vendors peddled a new kind of Kewpie doll - portly and dressed in the brown robes of an Augustinian monk. In one shop window, portraits of Luther and Lenin glared at each other across the open pages of an ancient Bible. Thus was the 450th anniversary of the Reformation celebrated in the midst of a "democratic socialist" republic...
...Mexico. The war was particularly unpopular among U.S. intellectuals. Henry Thoreau spent a night in the Concord jail for refusing to pay his state poll tax. Next day, he returned to Walden Pond to write his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. Ralph Waldo Emerson warned that "the U.S. will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison...
...with few new worlds to conquer, Henry Kaiser turned over his companies to Son Edgar (another son, Henry Jr., died in 1961) and moved to Hawaii. Even in retirement he was more active than other men in their prime. He conceived Hawaii Kai, a $350 million model community on 6,000 acres that will eventually house 50,000 people. Before long, the then septuagenarian had cleared land and built the 1,100-room Hawaiian Village Hotel (which he sold to Conrad Hilton for $21.5 million), started a cement company, bought a radio and TV station, and established a Jeep-rental...