Word: conquest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with a steaming headful of excrement, and a militarist with a swastika tiepin and ectoplastic dreams of conquest in his skull--has a Brechtian violence that is beyond the scope of most modern cartooning...
Still, the mounting mania greeting Halley's return has less to do with science than with the comet's reputation as a fiery harbinger of doom and its familiar role in presaging such events as the fall of Jerusalem in the 1st century or the Norman Conquest (see box). Indeed, for the public as well as scientists, 1986 may turn out to be the Year of the Comet. "The arrival of Halley's comet is not just an astronomical event," insists Joseph Laufer, ^ editor and publisher of a three-year-old Halley's comet newsletter. "It's a cultural event...
...Crimson's lone win came in the next game, a 12-4 conquest of Framingham State...
...Soviet Legacy in Nationality Affairs: An Historical Overview: with speaker Robert Conquest and commentator Richard Pipes, Collidge Hall, Room 4, Harvard...
...accounts, beginning in 1960, were the first to take us behind the scenes to reveal the inner workings of great men, their great strategists, plotting the conquest of the greatest office in the world. His premise--in the context of contemporary reporting, which recorded little more than the candidates' public appearances--was that campaigns were infinitely more complex, more sophisticated, and more fun, than previously assumed...