Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategic points of their own choosing, henceforth fight a war of "big-eat-little." The immediate objective was a limited one: "I guarantee within six months to annihilate all Communists below the Yellow River." Had he written off Manchuria? He had not ("in 60 years the Reds will not conquer China"), but the way back would be long...
...deliberately fomenting war. You are imperialists and you want war. . . . You will attack the U.S.S.R. but it will conquer you through the power of its idea. . . . With or without war, there will be no civilization at all in the United States ten years from...
...recognition of Russia-"a regime which refuses to acknowledge the sanctity of international obligations." When Russia walked into Poland in 1939, Garner took an I-told-you-so attitude. He said to the President: "You haven't much choice, Cap'n. Either Hitler or Stalin would conquer the world. Hitler by force, and Stalin by chicanery, corruption, treachery and undermining...
...flights were made that day, the brothers taking turns at the controls. The longest was 59 seconds, for a distance of 852 feet. Then the wind picked up the plane, rolled it over and wrecked it. But the Wright brothers, bicycle mechanics of Dayton, had proved that man could conquer...
...Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein couldn't wait to get to his typewriter. After glowing words for Violinist Spivakovsky,* Frankenstein wrote: "This is conceivably the greatest violin concerto since Brahms . . . noble, rich and splendid . . . blazing display music for [a] soloist to conquer...