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Word: conquests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Marion's sabre team, a contender for best in the East, contributed seven wins, with sabremen Ron Winfield and Larry Cetrulo victorious in each of their three rounds. Tom Keller went undefeated in foil competition as the foil team's 6-3 conquest completed the sweep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Epee Team Foils Cornell Fencers | 3/4/1969 | See Source »

Hendrix is now a superstar, the ultimate conquest for groupies and the ultimate guitar player for many aspiring superstars. Hendrix created the freak show probably because he liked it and because it gained him fame and notoriety and made him a sex symbol...

Author: By James C. Gutman, | Title: B.B. King Is King of the Blues--Black Music That Whites Now Dig | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...bitter dramatization of the plight of the many thousand Jews who still live in the Arab world, and Israel opened a determined publicity and diplomatic campaign designed to protect them. They are among the remnants of the great Diaspora-the dispersal of the Jews from Jerusalem after the conquest of their capital by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 B.C. Down through the centuries, Jews and Arabs got along with one another reasonably well; though Jews generally were treated as second-class citizens, they were respected as "people of the Book." They prospered as traders, artisans and scholars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Jews in the Arab World | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...either therefore to recruit highly trained human resources on American campuses. ROTC trains men in various aspects of the U.S. military; to justify the right to be so trained necessitates condoning the activities in which the U.S. military engages--in effect, one would have to support the right of conquest, the right of a foreign government to exploit a people and to suppress the Black liberation movement at home. There is no such right, any more than there is a right for Murder, Inc. to train and recruit instruments of death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS Position Papers: Why ROTC 'Must GO' | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...occasional false confessions; yet nothing much was made of it in the U.S. The onus was all on the enemy. Nor did enemy soldiers demonstrate any greater staying power in World War II. From Germans captured at Stalingrad, the Russians learned all of Hitler's plans for their conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: NEW COMPASSION FOR THE PRISONER OF WAR | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

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