Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's lightly weighted One Hitter, twice in one week, over Mrs. Charles Howard's Irish-bred Noor, four-time conqueror of Citation and holder of three world records. Also at Belmont Park, Christopher Chenery's Hill Prince, under top weight in the 81st running of the Jerome Handicap, over a field that included King Ranch's Middleground, to clinch 1950'$ top three-year-old honors...
Under the guise of "religious articles," stores do a thriving business selling spiritualist charms. There is Attraction Incense, incense "to vibrate the powers of Lady Luck," Compelling Incense, High Conquering Incense ("Its fumes the steppingstone to the mighty conqueror condition"). Harder to find are the brujos, who cure asthma by hanging a tiny dead green frog in a bag around the neck...
...Rome last week Rodolfo Graziani, once a field marshal of Italy, stood nervously before a military court. Twitching his thin lower lip and fingering a monocle, the Fascist conqueror of Ethiopia heard a fellow officer declare him guilty of military collaboration with the Germans during World War II. The admiral and four generals who made up the court rejected Graziani's proud plea that he had simply done a soldier's duty. Graziani, they decided, had gone well beyond the call of duty when he joined Mussolini's German-supported rump government after Italy surrendered...
...last remnants of William the Conqueror's Dukedom of Normandy still held by the British Crown are the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. There, in sentimental moments, Norman islanders still sometimes toast William's distinguished successor George VI as duke rather than king. There, in hard-pressed moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear...
...inspired Evita turned again to Alexander. This time she recalled an occasion when the Macedonian hero was facing a horde of Persians and was sagely advised by General Parmenio to attack by night, since his forces were weak. "If I were Parmenio, I would do so," cried the conqueror, "but Alexander never conceals his victories...