Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sports are like women. Just when you think you're in shape for a big conquest, something goes wrong and you lose the struggle; maybe lose your pride, and gain a bit more experience, though less than you'd hoped for. But when you do win, it's so good that all your past heartbreaks don't seem so important. You've got what you've been sweating for; you're the champ...
Moonlit Pilots. By any reckoning, CAT has had more than one life. Caught in China's civil war, Chennault's outfit snarled Communist timetables of conquest by ferrying soldiers and supplies to the mainland. In the process, CAT became Nationalist China's civilian transport arm and the most shot-at airline in history. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, CAT went along. From time to time, its crackerjack pilots moonlighted, accepting such missions as dropping French paratroopers into Dienbienphu...
Coach John Barnaby's invincible squash team capped another unblemished season with a 6-3 conquest of Yale on the Bulldogs' courts Saturday, giving Harvard its seventh consecutive League crown...
Princeton has strength throughout the Mneup. Captain Dave Van Voorhis in the 50 and 100 yd. freestyle in an easy conquest of Navy last week. Dave Myerburg, one of the top young freestylers in the country one or two years ago, will battle Pete Adams in the 200 free; this should be another highlight...
...eyed hero of the war, wants to give back any part of the lands before the Arabs agree to make peace-if they ever do. What he was telling his countrymen was that the occupation, although necessary, has hardened the fears of Arab leaders that Israel is bent on conquest and has made them, if anything, more determined than ever to destroy the Jewish state. The occupation, Dayan warned, is therefore likely to last a very long time...