They swept St . Louisin the World Series, but vanquishing the Yankees might have been more cathartic.
But vanquishing the literalists is only half of Kugel's project.
In the gal's perfect day she is kidnapped on the way back from putting the kids on the school bus but vanquishes the kidnappers in time to go for a fattening lunch with her single-mom pals, at which they lament their lack of dates before donning designer gowns to go to a school board meeting where they successfully address all major educational problems.
In taking on three of the finest players in history and not just matching them but vanquishing them, repeatedly, Murray faces one of the great challenges in British sport.
Cherish is a creation on a par with Ricky Gervais's David Brent, a needy, narcissistic, indestructible has-been on a mission, battered but never vanquished by serial humiliation.
Though there were no immediate claims of responsibility, the attacks were carried out in the fashion of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the Sunni insurgent group weakened but not vanquished by the American military.
What is hard to imagine is a worse consequence: Britain and France demoralized and depleted, Germany humiliated but not vanquished, Russia robbed of any chance of liberal reform and turned over to a gang of psychopathic fanatics.
Re "Hypertension: In Retreat, but Hardly Vanquished" (Personal Health, April 22): As Jane E. Brody observes, a good way to control this malady is with pharmaceuticals, but it is not the only way.
Béla and his alliesDaniil Romanovich, Boleslaw the Chaste, and Leszek the Black of Sieradzinvaded Moravia, but Ottokar vanquished them in the Battle of Kressenbrunn on 12 June 1260.
