Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Here, as in many another area, U.S. idealism has been brought face to face with an unpalatable truth: when self-determination conflicts with the overriding U.S. objective of preserving the free world from Communist conquest, both expediency and good conscience dictate that self-determination must take second place. For unless the tide of Communism is contained, the world's dependent peoples will lose even the freedom to cry for freedom...
...Conquest: CBS's science report showed the first pictures ever taken of actual atoms-electronically magnified 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 times and falling in lacy, snowflake patterns on the point of an extra-sharp pin. But the show's most stirring segment was an open-heart operation filmed in a University of Minnesota hospital. The patient: a pretty five-year-old blue baby named Debbie, who was wheeled into the operating room with a toy lion perched on her chest. Dr. Richard DeWall was on the scene to explain how his heart-lung pump oxygenator...
...from conquering space or even moving beyond the crawling stage of unmanned satellites. But even the week's snarls and snaps were comforting sounds because, like the clear call of the Explorer in its ceaseless cruise, they signaled that the nation was at least gearing up for the conquest...
...readings (see SCIENCE). And of the legions of scientists, generals, admirals, engineers and administrators at work on missiles and man-made moons, German-born Wernher von Braun, 45, best personified man's accelerating drive to rise above the planet. Von Braun, in fact, has only one interest: the conquest of space, which he calls man's greatest venture. To pursue his lifelong dream, he has helped Adolf Hitler wage a vengeful new kind of war, has argued against bureaucracy in two languages and campaigned against official apathy and public disbelief on two continents through most of his adult...
...could write for twelve hours at a stretch without even feeling tired, but Dumas fils found writing an "exhausting physical labor," which caused dizziness and cramps. Senior lavished money on courtesans, wept his eyes out when they died-and rushed on to the arms of his latest conquest. But his bastard son, haunted since childhood "by the problem of seduced women and natural children," decided at an early age that his own books would be dedicated to the saving of corrupted womanhood...