Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateurish performance, long wartime absence from competition hadn't hurt MacMitchell's legs. Nor had war increased his slow heartbeat; MacMitchell's still pumped at a tardy 43 beats a minute. What he needed most was crack competition. Ready to oblige: Wisconsin's Walter Mehl, conqueror of Glenn Cunningham, who was out of the Navy and in training; ex-Dartmouth speedster Don Burnham...
...Annamese revolt against the return of French rule, and they're cut down by machine-gun fire like animals. I can't understand the mental make-up of people who were themselves just released from the yoke of the vanquished and now take up the mantle of Conqueror again...
...Soviet leaders was a sign that the Foreign Commissar might return to the Premiership. C| Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky, 48, Red Army Chief of Staff (1943-45), signed the anniversary Order of the Day as Stalin's deputy. He left his planning job to acquire glory as the conqueror of Konigsberg in East Prussia and as commander in the brief war against Japan. Vasilevsky, now Deputy Commissar of Defense, may soon replace Stalin as Defense Commissar. General Alexei 1. Antonov, 44, who succeeded Vasilevsky as Chief of Staff, reviewed the troops in Red Square. Antonov's next...
Last week the medical school's reputation was in danger. Both the A.M.A. and the Association of American Medical Colleges were watching it closely. The trouble began with the latest move of the new president of L.S.U. Bluff, 6-ft., bellowing William ("The Conqueror") Hatcher began his presidency by firing a dean who had once opposed Hatcher's promotion to a full professorship...
...years Benes' homeland knew the tearing strains and compromises and moral storms of occupation. As in other lands of the New Order, not all Czechs and Slovaks were heroes; some made their reluctant peace with serfdom, some had even welcomed the conqueror. But many fought and many died. In exile, Benes won Allied support for his refugee government, organized a new Czechoslovak army, kept close contact with the homeland's hopes and fears, and planned a new synthesis. "Ideas do not stand still," he said. "We accept the catch phrase of the last war: 'The cure...