Word: conquest
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...year-old Imari plates, which are hard to find in good condition. For her mother's 70th birthday, Jenkins spent three months in antiques centers like Boston and Charleston, S.C., searching in vain for a matching set. Then in one visit to Magazine Street, Jennings had a "great conquest": she found 12 more plates in good condition for $1,000. "My mother was so thrilled," she says. "Every time I see those plates on display in her home, it reminds me of this very special purchase that I made in New Orleans...
...Harvard Independent star reporter Jon R. De Vito ’03 has written over 400 stories for the sports page, all in service of his dream of hooking up with a female varsity athlete. So far his only conquest has been a late-night tryst with a baseball glove that won’t return his calls...
Naipaul is at his most incisive when he hits closest to what, for Americans, is home: Norman Mailer's quixotic 1969 mayoral campaign in New York City (his slogan: "Get Ready for the Norman Conquest!") or the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. It's a little unsettling to be seen as exotic, and that unsettling feeling reminds us that the reason we love to travel and the reason we love to read are the same: to see ourselves clearly. "It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves," De Botton reminds us. "The domestic setting keeps...
...multiculturalism and hungry global capital. The trouble is, the Company can occasionally come off as nothing more threatening?or awe-inspiring?than an international plate collectors' club. What's missing from "Trading Places" isn't a medicinal dose of political correctness, but the full drama of early capitalism and conquest...
...late March, the Palestinians had nearly a week to organize a defense--on their own turf, on their own terms. The slope of the camp favored their position at the crest. And their bombmakers expertly set about the delicate task of making every alley and building a lethal conquest for the Israeli attackers...