Word: conqueror
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...duchess, ne Bessie Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, came from two of those old Maryland and Virginia families that like to trace their ancestry to William the Conqueror. But the Warfields' relative social prominence was not matched by wealth, especially after Wallis' father died when she was only a few months old. She married her first husband, Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., a Navy officer, in 1916. Intensely jealous, he occasionally locked her in her room; they were divorced in 1927 after years of separation. The following year she married Ernest Simpson, a quiet, scholarly, American-born Briton, also recently divorced...
...devour someone else before the year is over, for another $5 million to $8 million or much less. An opponent is the problem. "Let's do it again," Hearns offered vaguely, meaning in the distant future. The Detroiter needs some time to recall he is a boxer, and the conqueror must be allowed some time to grow old. "I'm at the top of my game, and I don't see any other fighter out there," said Hagler, Marvelous no longer just by court decree. "I don't see another one. I'm 'boxing' right...
...born in one of those typical Southern families who all more or less descend from William the Conqueror ... She resolved early to make men her career, and in 40 years reached the top--or almost. No man she careered is known to have ever said a word not in her praise. Apart from her first husband Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, U.S.N., and her second (present) husband Ernest Aldrich Simpson, a London shipbroker, probably her best friend, next to the Duke of Windsor, remains the Argentine Ambassador in Washington, Felipe Espil ... "My, my!" sighed Ambassador Espil to swank U.S. friends last...
...first 150 years of their long rule - which ended in the early 20th century - are represented by the gold-decorated ceremonial sword of Süleyman I ("the Magnificent"), its hilt of walrus ivory missing the precious stones it once held; colorful caftans belonging to Mehmed II ("the Conqueror"), as well as the sketchbook he may have carried to lessons as a young prince. "Turks" ends with a flourish: the opulent peak of Ottoman influence more than four centuries ago, when the rulers subsidized a wide range of decorative but practical objects, including bronze lamps, candlesticks and ceramics. Turkish Prime...
...shocked to read the conclusions drawn by Mark A. Adomanis about the 1453 capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman armies of Mehmet the Conqueror (Op-ed, “Lessons From The Year 1453,” Sept. 24). Not only was this editorial an example of the worst sort of reductive history but, sadly, it fit far too closely with the Bush administration’s vocabulary of East and West, of infidels and holy Crusaders, to have been the result of objective analysis...