Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entry, even the ground marches toward railway and other inland centers, supported the battles for the coasts. The U.S. Seventh Army, seizing the southwestern coast, conducted a great backstopping operation, holding down and drawing off sizable enemy forces from the decisive eastern sector. To that canny soldier and conqueror, General Montgomery, fell the task of taking the eastern coast...
...could only get the subjugated peoples of Asia toresent the conqueror as he is resented in Europe and to believe in fair treatment by the Allies after the war, we should have won a great victory and a great ally, she maintained...
...work of other men in 1942 may prove to be more enduring, but . . . the conqueror of Singapore, Java and Bataan is the man who knocked the pins down in this frame...
...MacArthur's enemy, Lieut. General Tomatore Horii, conqueror of Rabaul, who was desperate (he was almost captured fortnight ago in the New Guinea jungle). Now General Horii knew what it was like to strive mightily to reinforce battered troops when they were hemmed in on three sides (last week the fresh Americans took over the fiercest fighting assignments from the jungle-weary Australians). For his striving the Emperor's General lost a cruiser and two destroyers, blown to pieces by U.S. and Australian pilots...
...Burnham, winner of last year's Heptagonal cross-country race and conqueror of Les MacMitchell in the Metropolitan Mile last spring, will lead the Green team. Backing him up will be Bob Williams, third in the Heps last fall...