"It's the American belief that with enough hard work and perseverance anything - be it a force of nature, a country or a disease - can be vanquished," says Clapp. "It's a country founded on the idea of no limits.
What came to me was that rather than the victors, it was the vanquished, the Japanese who had lost the war, who would be able to see more clearly the truth in things.
It was finally vanquished in 1994 by the Plan Real, a mix of conventional and unorthodox methods.Savers' lawyers charge that in picking new inflation indices the banks breached existing contracts so as to profit at clients' expense.
So did a Taiwan legislator with the Kuomintang Party, which made Nanjing its headquarters until it was vanquished by the Communists in 1949.
It was the vanquishing of inflation by the Federal Reserve in the early 1980s under Paul A. Volcker that led to a collapse in the price of the precious metal and to the widespread belief in the wisdom of central bankers.
Impressively, it's also vanquished her own previous best seller, "Seabiscuit," which logged 30 weeks on the list back in 2001-2 before making way for the paperback edition.
Common sense suggests that this hat gesture ought to be slight, yet it vanquishes him.
He said it was time to "vanquish racial discord from our hearts and spirit".
American Experience: The Forgotten Plague Looks at tuberculosis — the deadliest killer in human history — how the disease was vanquished, and how it has come back in more recent times.
Much like its namesake, it is not easily vanquished.
