Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Algeria and then a colonel for Ojukwu in Biafra. He is Rolf Steiner, and he considers the war to be far from lost, contemptuously dismissing the territorial gains of the heavily armed Nigerians. "If any corporal serving under me in the Legion had taken more than a week to conquer West Africa with their kind of equipment," he snorts, "I'd have him shot for dereliction of duty." Ojukwu, for whom Steiner has immense admiration, has authorized the Fourth to be expanded to two brigades, or 20 strike forces of 360 men each. The new men are being armed...
Midway through this longest night, O'Rourke decides to conquer nothingness by destroying himself. Deserting his post, he reels off in a grog-soaked bender and chops down a flagpole with an ax. Based on a drama by British Playwright John McGrath, The Bofors-Gun whirls to an ironic, literal climax that leaves the viewer more with the sense of having read a script than experienced a film. But there is nothing flat or literary about Williamson's biting representation of a human being tormented by both God and man, who in the end chooses neither...
...running his family's Kansas City interests (an auto agency, small loan and real-estate operations). Not until 1953, when his stepfather, Jules Stein, founder of MCA, asked Oppenheimer to buy him land and cattle as a tax shelter, did the ex-Marine find a new field to conquer...
...entice them into fighting in the King's army, offering a catalogue of the loot and license the recruits will enjoy: cattle, Maseratis, naked girls, the opportunity to break children's arms and inform on innocents. At last they are persuaded, and go off to conquer the world. It is not long, of course, before the world conquers them. Against photographer Raoul Coutard's haunted landscapes -interrupted by newsreel footage of atrocities and death - they loot and plunder, lifting skirts and wallets, but growing steadily poorer...
...graft onto Christianity. The false assumption that nature exists only to serve man is at the root of an ecological crisis that ranges from the lowly litterbug to the lunacy of nuclear proliferation. At this hour, man's only choice is to live in harmony with nature, not conquer...