Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dozens of industrial giants seeking new fields to conquer in the '60s have been tempted by the backward and fragmented housing industry. Most of them -including Alcoa, Union Carbide, Humble Oil, Reynolds Metals and General Electric-have found the resulting problems formidable and the profits elusive. Among others, National Gypsum, Certainteed and Sunset International Petroleum have retreated with bruises from construction ventures. But not ebullient Boise Cascade Corp., the Idaho-based paper, timber and building products maker. Having spread successfully into prefabricated homes and conventional housebuilding, the company last week moved into the land-development business as well...
...wonders today what so captivated her contemporaries, the answer is probably that she viewed the period as it liked to picture itself: a time of grace and intelligence, when irony could conquer sentimentality and laughter would always overwhelm tears. Her chief reputation was as a quipster, the Guinevere of the Algonquin Round Table. Hers was the tongue heard round the world. Her famed couplet, "Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses," not only set a style for lonely movie heroines but may well have spurred the development of contact lenses. During the long Victorian era, wit had hardly...
President Johnson, speaking at Omaha in June 1966, argued that "What happens in South Vietnam will determine--yes, it will determine--whether ambitious and aggressive nations can use guerrilla warfare to conquer their weaker neighbors." The Administration views the underdeveloped world as a dry tinderbox of social and economic injustice ruled by weak and inept regimes; it believes that a spark from China may engulf the whole third world in revolutionary flames; it fears the emergency of increasing numbers of "regimes responsive to Peiping's will." How tenable are these views of "wars of national liberation...
...fact remains that Lindbergh was first to conquer the Atlantic nonstop solo...
...N.R.T. stooped to conquer Molière by condescension. Rarely trusting the playwright's lines to speak for themselves, the company gimmicked up the play with whoops and simpers, vaudeville pratfalls and putty noses. Invalid takes off after doctors and their gullible patients with a Shavian vengeance. But Molière's prey is not his purpose. Like all masters of high comedy, he essentially diagnoses man's incurable diseases-vanity, pretension and folly. The bell-capped revelers of the N.R.T. are blind to this underlying gravity...