Word: conquests
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...judicial restraint: a tendency to respect the acts of legislators and ancient tradition. In the abortion and quotas cases, the court let bitterly disputed decisions by Congress stand, and in the trials case it stressed an Anglo-American tradition of public trials going back to before the Norman conquest of England...
This bastard son of Monty Python's Life of Brian had possibilities: Dudley Moore, fresh from his conquest of Bo Derek, plays Herschel, a comic biblical figure who never quite made it into the Bible. Instead he meets a fatherly slave (James Coco), a feisty pharaoh (Richard Pryor), a counterfeit beggar (David L. Lander), an inept angel of the Lord (Paul Sand), a show-bizzy Arab (Dom DeLuise) and an ornery young woman (Laraine Newman) who leaves Herschel to tryst with Goliath and is turned into a pillar of salt. Even in A.D. 1980, the wrath of God should...
...last week, in fact, Israeli jets and armored units launched still another raid against Palestinian bases and refugee camps in southern Lebanon. In several other respects, however, the assassination attempts were, without question, among the most shocking and ominous developments in the West Bank since the Israeli conquest of that region...
...British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who has long been pushing his own ideas for the neutralization of Afghanistan, thought the Soviet proposal should at least be explored. Said he: "We should see if we can build on it." Carrington observed, however, that the Soviet plan would simply ratify the conquest of Afghanistan and did not even provide guarantees for a Soviet withdrawal. The initial view of France's Foreign Minister Jean Francois-Poncet: "Nothing...
...just a hockey game, of course; it had no bearing on American foreign policy or prestige or power in the world. And yet it was such a dramatically and symbolically delicious moment that Americans erupted briefly in spontaneous, childlike gladness. The very innocence of the conquest made it sweetly uncomplicated and morally unimpeachable. The nation indulged in small orgies of flag waving and anthem singing. At a Stop & Shop supermarket in Cambridge, Mass., the p.a. system suddenly blurted that the U.S. hockey team had beaten the Soviets. The store erupted as bags of cookies, paper towels and anything else handy...