Word: conquests
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...such a charming face / That it?s all right with me.? The song is a declaration of promiscuity, and as Mitchell sings he glances around the room, being serially flirtatious: making laser eye contact, leaving a lady in a puddle of love and moving on for the next conquest. For the instrumental break soars into a scat-singing riff; fake-exhausted after the flourish, he pants in 4/4 time. Big laugh from the audience, or rather, audible smiles. Before the first number is over, they?re in BSM?s mood. Now everyone in the room is at his stage door...
...second consecutive afternoon to capture the first point. The combo of senior captain Courtney Bergman and sophomore Elsa O’Riain won first, beating the country’s No. 28 team, 8-4. Wang and sophomore Preethi Mukundan secured the 1-0 lead with a 8-5 conquest, before junior Melissa Anderson and freshman Celia Durkin poured on the gravy with...
...NORMAN CONQUEST...
...heart of the book is Rowan's coverage of the 1948 siege of Mukden, or Shenyang, the linchpin in the Communist conquest of Manchuria. Rowan and Birns are on hand as the city falls and, after a hairy escape off a bombarded air-strip, learn that the Nationalists are refusing to report the defeat. Rowan can cable his scoop back in time for the week's edition, but Birns' photographs can only travel by air. The two secure passage for the film on a 40-hour flight to San Francisco. LIFE holds the presses for 12 hours and sets...
...which can be ignited at the turn of an ankle or the vaguest smile, or just by walking down Fifth Avenue. Don't pretty women know this? Don't they get a little bit of pleasure stopping pedestrian traffic? Are they not creating their own scenarios of conversation and conquest...