Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shift from Europe to Asia in recent years is not so much a change of affections as it is a recognition of 1) how well Western Europe has recovered, and 2) how much the area of imminent danger of Communist penetration shifted to Asia, after the Communists completed their conquest of China...
...last week when Ben Schriever made a progress report to a hard-boiled symposium of astronautics scientists in San Diego (see SCIENCE). The report: since 1954, when the U.S. stepped up its ICBM program, it has come such a "long way in the development of space technology" that the conquest of outer space appears right around the corner-and that corner must soon be turned if the U.S. is to maintain its air supremacy...
...Madison Avenue totem pole, who has "always been so ready to be rich," drives up to Connecticut in a mortgaged Cadillac to hear the reading of his father's will. In the family law office, Charlie spends an idle 15 minutes making a conquest of Ellen, a pretty secretary, a girl who proves singularly susceptible to a combination of old jokes and rueful self-pity. But after this pleasant diversion, the will is a nasty shock. Out of the million-dollar estate, Good-Time Charlie gets only a gold watch, some books and a few bottles of wine...
...Conquest. The momentous trip, announced the happy LeMay with transparent modesty, was "just another training mission, no different from dozens and dozens of others." In some ways, this was true. The crews were as carefully briefed and seemingly as routinely inured as for any long-distance trip. Yet as they proved once again SAC's enormous everyday striking power, it was also clear that SAC's able flyers had made the kind of history that would soar to the top of man's unending catalogue of conquests over nature...
...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). "Conquest of the Air," how the Eighth Air Force broke the back of the Nazi Luftwaffe...