Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes her own rules and discards husbands and lovers the way other people discard paper napkins. The play was considered indifferent Shaw and dull theater until Kate turned it into a personal triumph. The critics drowned in their own superlatives: "A blockbusting performance''-"A human hurricane"-"Conquest by storm"-"One feels as excited as the man who went over Niagara in a barrel...
...major conquest that remained for serious European mountain climbers was the sheer west face of the Aiguille du Dru, which rises over the Chamonix Valley to 12,247 ft. above sea level. To blaze this last unclimbed trail in the Alps, four tough young Frenchmen roped themselves together with 70-ft. lengths of nylon and started...
...With obvious reference to air power advocate Taft, he decried "the false prophets of living alone who preach that we need do nothing except maintain a destructive retaliatory force in the event the Russian armies should march." Such a program, he suggested, was inadequate to cope with Communist political conquest like that in Czechoslovakia. He demanded unwavering support for the U.N. and NATO and, in another sideways swipe at Bob Taft, added that "even those who blindly opposed [NATO's] launching will admit that it has stopped the spread of Communism in Europe and the Mediterranean." He had equally...
California Conquest (Columbia). Between 1825 and 1841, Mexico-ruled California was torn by internal strife, and Russia, France, England and the U.S. were trying to take over the territory. Dramatizing this little-known phase of history, California Conquest adds a dash of Technicolor and several dashes of dramatic license to the facts. Cornel Wilde is a romantic Spanish don who is in favor of U.S. annexation. To prevent the Russians from worming their way into the orange groves, he and tomboyish Teresa Wright work their way into the bandit forces of toothy, grinning Alfonso Bedoya...
...convicted war criminal General Sadao Araki, who directed Japan's 1931 conquest of Manchuria, served in 1938-39 as Japan's Minister of Education...