Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gravity-what has that got to do with honest physical culture?" demanded Team Leader Constantin Sorokin, one of four "managers" accompanying the girls. "Ski lifts and the like would not be approved in the Soviet Union. Sports without toil and sweat, without the satisfaction of self-denial and self-conquest, are nothing more than an amusement." With that, Comrade Sorokin put his six strapping girls (four blondes, two brunettes) through conditioning exercises, starting at the crack of dawn, that left other competitors gasping...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...
...regular TV telecasts in Italy, Pope Pius XII last week released a statement to all Italian bishops pointing out that television must be regarded as a mixed blessing. On the one hand, TV as a "new conquest of science" can exert a "beneficial influence in relation to the culture and popular education of the people." On the other hand, "TV programs are, in most part, made up of films and theatrical spectacles, and the number that fully satisfy Christian morality is still too small." The Pope warned that "it can only be frightening to think that, through the medium...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought foot by foot to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...