Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's C&C Super Corp. C&C paid $12.2 million in cash and agreed to pay $3,000,000 more over the next two years. Last week O'Neil climaxed the coup with a $12 million flourish. He sold two unreleased films, Jet Pilot and The Conqueror, back to Howard Hughes himself for $8,000,000 cash and about $4,000,000 in future payments. (Hughes also bought back The Outlaw, for an additional undisclosed sum.) Teleradio thus emerges with a virtually assured cash profit of $2,200,000 on its investment in barely half a year...
Soon off to reconnoiter the antarctic for an expedition he will lead there, New Zealand's strapping Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, bounced his son Peter on his knee, showed the lad a brogue the size of Noah's ark. Explained Sir Edmund: "The British expedition is supplying us with boots, but I've got such big feet that I don't trust them to have my size, so I'm taking...
...superskeptical Indian journalist named S. M. Goswami brought out a potboiler last year, charging that neither Sir Edmund Hillary nor his famed Sherpa Guide Tenzing ever set foot atop Mount Everest, but had actually turned back 800 feet from the summit. Chuckled Everest's Co-conqueror Hillary: "The man is making a bit of a goat of himself." In Calcutta last week, Author Goswami, deeply affronted, butted back at Sir Edmund with a 100,000 rupee ($20,000) libel and slander suit. Back home in New Zealand, where he is now planning an Antarctic expedition, part-time Beekeeper Hillary...
...Moslem followers of Mohammed the Conqueror who triumphantly stormed Constantinople in 1453 were so successful in covering up all traces of Christianity that for almost five centuries Byzantine art-once the glory of Eastern Christendom-could be judged only through the examples that survived outside the Moslem world. Then, in 1935, Turkey's Kemal Ataturk declared Istanbul's Church of St. Sophia a historical monument, and cleared the way for Western experts to remove the plaster and paint that pious, iconoclastic Moslems had daubed over the great Christian mosaics. Since then each fragmentary restoration has added new proof...
England has not been successfully invaded since William the Conqueror rode over the luckless Saxons nine centuries ago, but the island's invulnerability is about to end. Next month commercial television will invade staunch Britain, surging onto the air waves that have long been the placid domain of the uncommercial, unexciting...