Word: conquistadores
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...Most recent poem of widespread acclaim was "American Was Promises" in 1939, rivaling in quality the Pulitzer Prize "Conquistador...
...French conquistador's beginnings were humble. He was born into a bourgeois family the year before Napoleon invaded Russia. Later young Bazaine flunked his exams for Paris' Ecole Polytechnique and, after an unsuccessful career as a grocer's boy, enlisted as a private. In a little more than a year he was a sergeant and transferred eagerly to the newly formed Foreign Legion...
...Conquistador, an epic of Cortes' conquest of Mexico...
...series of slides Anderson showed an Inca community which had been overwhelmed and destroyed by the Spanish conquistador, Pizzaro, and in particular the fort called Sachesajuaman which resisted his onslaught bravely. When finally subjected by the cruel Pizzaro, the Inca captain of this fort's garrison leaped to his death from its 40 feet walls...
...Forester so skillfully constructs the silences of unbruised continents, the dreadfulness of events, that he inevitably challenges the memory of Archibald MacLeish's Conquistador. His story has the pity of that poem, some of its beauty and power...