Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amidst his preparations to lead a New Zealand expedition to the Antarctic in December, Sir Edmund Hillary, beekeeper and co-conqueror of Mount Everest, spread the word that he has a vacancy for one newshawk in his party. But the billet has some apron strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...
...Conqueror (RKO Radio). An American traveler in Central Asia once asked a Mongolian herdsman where America was. "In West Russia," he replied. This picture, which purports to be based on the life of the young Genghis Khan, carries a strong suggestion that, to Hollywood's way of thinking, Mongolia is in the western U.S. The part of the "Perfect Warrior"-a man who became a supreme statesman and lawgiver as well as the most formidable military genius in Asiatic history-is played by Hollywood's best-known cowboy, John Wayne. And does he gallop across the steppe...
Late Date. Conqueror after conqueror followed the Romans across the beachheads of the vulnerable Mediterranean island, but none bothered to investigate the mineral riches that lay beneath its soil. In 1912 the chance visit of an American geologist to a New York Public Library led to their rediscovery...
...peaks that towered into the clear air high above her home. She set her heart on mastering Mount Cook, New Zealand's tallest (12,349 ft.). Called Aorangi (Cloud Piercer) by the Maoris, Cook is a tough enough test for a professional mountaineer. Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Everest, practiced there; many lost their lives in the attempt...
...does the play's second half bring any tragic reversal. Hubris, to the last, goes unpunished; only Death defeats the conqueror, and it by thrombosis, not spears or thunderbolts. Before that, the insatiable barbarian whose only principle is "the argument of arms" has created a pageant of carnage and torture. Caged royal captives bash out their brains; men hanged in chains are pierced by arrows: conquered kings must draw their conqueror...