Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Being myself a Buddhist, I read with great interest the note on Buddhism which accompanied your article concerning the Dalai Lama. You correctly quoted the principle of Buddha's philosophy of life as self-conquest. This is refreshing to see, since an alarming number of Westerners seem to be under the impression that Buddhism is a lot of heathen mumbo jumbo designed to please a golden idol so that he would send the worshiper to heaven...
...China, and one Bombay weekly deplored the fact that "the portfolio of Defense is in the hands of a Cabinet minister [Krishna Menon] known for his leanings toward Communism." Indians who have long scoffed at what they called the West's "preoccupation" with Communist plans for world conquest now sound much like the people they once derided...
...harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast, and Houphouet himself, already a member of the French National Assembly, became the indispensable black man in every French Cabinet...
Chile's Hernán Videla Lira raised the menace of Red trade. "Moscow," he said, "has definitely stated that it is attempting the economic conquest of the free world and, in this way, imposition of its political conditions." But despite hundreds of proposed deals-including 176 to Brazil alone in 1958-Iron-and Bamboo-Curtain trade runs around only 1% of Latin America's total. And Communist loans to all of Latin America so far total only...
...varsity handled the traditionally tough Tigers, their first really first-rate opponents, with impressive ease. This victory, coupled with Yale's 8-1 conquest of Dartmouth, leaves the Crimson and the Elis as the only unbeaten teams in the Eastern League...