Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chou En-lai of Peking moved through Europe with the relaxed grace of a conqueror. He savored pâté de foie gras and raspberries with Mendès-France; he sipped wine with three Chinese actresses and an Occidental jester, Charlie Chaplin...
General Chen Yi, military ruler of the East China region, conqueror and mayor of Shanghai, commander of the third field army and perennial squabbler with his political commissars...
This is a year of firsts. Everest was climbed, then an Englishman ran a four minute mile. The odd Ibis-crowned building at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets has been scaled innumerable times by men, but yesterday noon the first woman conqueror of the Lampoon Building, Adrienne L. deChetelat '46, posed for photographs in front of the well-traveled Ibis, which incidentally seems to be facing the CRIMSON Building again...
...Eastern state, and see your own future in that context rather than as a headquarters-or nucleus so to speak-of worldwide groupings of peoples of a particular religious faith who must have special rights within and obligations to the Israeli state. You should drop the attitude of the conqueror and the conviction that force and a policy of retaliatory killings is the only policy that your neighbors will understand. You should make your deeds correspond to your frequent utterance of the desire for peace...
...Willie "tries to resist" -being, as the synopsis explains, "an attractive and intelligent girl who is simply down on her luck in the ruins of postwar Germany." But Joe "arouses her beyond her powers of resistance . . . and like so many others before her," she is carried off to the conqueror's chariot in the darkened merry-go-round...