Word: conquests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only because U.S. military power, including U.S. bases overseas, has stood in the way. The U.S. bases, such as those in Turkey, have helped keep the peace since World War II, while the Russian bases in Cuba threatened to upset the peace. The Russian bases were intended to further conquest and domination, while U.S. bases were erected to preserve freedom. The difference should have been obvious...
...characters who vibrate to Stacton's obsessive music move in a dim past - 14th century Japan (Segaki), Yucatan at the time of the Spanish conquest (A Signal Victory), the court of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony). This time the novelist chooses a subject particularly well suited to his oddly cerebral evocation of blood and brass: the legend of the Duchess of Amain...
True to the book, the movie's impervious hero is machine-gunned, drugged, almost electrocuted, pressure-cooked, and licked by a flamethrower. Exaggerating the original's single conquest, he makes love to three women. But in two notable instances, the filmmakers felt a need to tone down Author Fleming's unbuttoned imagination. In the book, the heroine is walking a beach nude with a knife-belt strapped about her when Bond first sees her. In the movie, Actress Ursula Andress fills a wet bikini as if she were going downwind behind twin spinnakers. In the book...
...plenty of high-sounding competition. The National Monument Fund, for instance, is building two monuments. A national monument in the shape of a 300-ft. obelisk is going up across from Sukarno's palace. Also in construction is a 120-ft. West Irian monument memorializing the recent diplomatic conquest of Dutch New Guinea. Designed by the Big Builder himself, the West Irian monument is topped by a 30-ft. bronze man breaking out of his chains. Meanwhile government spending on social welfare has dropped from $6,000,000 in 1956 to $1,373,000 last year-hardly a monument...
...finely worded doctrines, charters, manifestoes and reports have only served to implement Mr. K.'s inch-by-inch plan for conquest. If Mr. Kennedy doubts this, then let him inquire of Nehru how fast-and easily-a border can disappear...