Word: conquest
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...wound down, students celebrated Harvard’s conquest of Yale and slowly worked their way out of the Bowl, exhausted...
...results of last week's off-year elections gave both parties something to cheer about. Republicans accelerated their conquest of the nation's governorships, particularly in the South, with victories by Representative Ernie Fletcher in Kentucky and Haley Barbour in Mississippi. The Democrats gained control of the New Jersey legislature and saw John Street win re-election as mayor of Philadelphia. Together, the results sketched in sharp relief the emerging political landscape. The country remains closely divided between the two parties, with partisanship more pronounced, and the South, in particular, becoming hostile terrain for Democrats...
...most of all, they liked him in a way they could scarcely explain. They liked Ike because, when they saw him and heard him talk, he made them proud of themselves and all the half-forgotten best that was in them and in the nation. It was a crashing conquest for the man who flew westward out of Washington last week, a known soldier but an unknown candidate. --TIME, June...
...America conquered Afghanistan and Iraq? In Afghanistan the Taliban still exist, and Osama bin Laden has not been found. In Iraq Saddam Hussein appears to be alive, and the country is a mess. How can you call that conquest? Iraq's ruling regime was removed, but that action has benefited terrorists. Perhaps Bush was too stupid to realize that when he took on Iraq, it wouldn't be an easy task. Would he dare attack North Korea? Never. It is not that the U.S. Army is stretched too thin; it is that Americanism and Bushism are. They are found everywhere...
...rhetoricians amongst their number—and there are many in Athens—worked their wiles on the citizenry, who demanded more and more explanation for the war. They cynically linked the conquest of the Scythians with the Athenians’ own genuflective position within the Empire. The traditionally troublesome Greeks took their poisonous words to heart, and focused their bile on Narcissus, who is increasingly isolated...