Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press, no less than to the U.S. State Department, the uninvited guest from Moscow posed a real dilemma. Behind the little black mustache of Anastas I. Mikoyan, Soviet First Deputy Premier, resided two men. One-the official emissary of a state dedicated to world conquest-was well concealed by the other: a good-will salesman, radiating charm, beaming his subtle pitch directly at the people, and possessing the built-in news value of a mysterious visitor from a mysterious land. The dilemma was: How to report on the fascinating, amiable salesman while keeping a clear eye on the suspicious nature...
Radio signals of the 1 1/2-ton projectile faded out as it passed the 370,960-mile mark and its 62nd hour aloft, in a headlong dash from the earth into man's greatest conquest of space...
...examined the memento ("that piece of ice meant more to him than all the rank . . . and fame that have been showered upon him"). In its way, it was a not unfitting symbolic link in man's chain of progress from the ice age to the undersea conquest of the ice-girt Pole...
...Crimson wrestling team lost its first match of the season, 15 to 9, to a rugged Cornell squad on Friday, Dec. 19. There were no pins in the meet, which was featured by Bob Foster's rousing conquest of Cornell's previously undefeated Steve Friedman...
...Minnesota's Ninth District, where Odin Langen chalked up the nation's only G.O.P. conquest of a Democratic seat by defeating two-termer Coya Knutson. Her prestige damaged at campaign time by a "Coya Come Home" letter from innkeeping Husband Andy Knutson (TIME, May 19 et seq.), Coya last week got Andy to the Capitol to admit he had written the letter at the instigation of his wife's political opponents and to add that he would like to see Coya back in Congress. The House committee found that Republican Langen had taken no part...