Word: conqueror
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...Dawn broke clear on a calm sea black with ships: 800 craft under Vice Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, the high-domed, hard-driving conqueror of Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Tarawa, Kwajalein and Saipan. With Turner on the bridge of his command ship was Lieut. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, boss of the Fleet Marine Force. Loaded on the surrounding transports were the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps: the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore and Bataan, was about to evacuate Manila and take to the hills of northern Luzon, to get away from General Douglas MacArthur's advancing legions. To Jap correspondents in Manila, Yamashita declaimed & explained: "At last I have MacArthur in my iron trap. I have been chasing him all over the South Seas and each time he has slipped away from me. This time it will be different, and my pleasure of a face-to-face meeting will be realized...
...synchronize the three main attacks, Marshal Stalin had shuffled his armies' commands. To his deputy commander in chief, stocky, aggressive Marshal Zhukov, he had given the Red Army's elite troops, the First White Russian Army. Zhukov was Stalin's conqueror-designate, his job to strike through from Warsaw to Poznań, thence to Germany's capital...
Among them, Harg was a genius. He built fires, and arrogantly put them out. He took women away from other men, drove the men away with burning faggots. He became to his people the sorcerer, medicine man, curer of ills and conqueror of evils. But as they began to revere him as a supernatural being, to follow wherever he led, Harg thought they were trying to spy out his secret. He became unhappy, confused, resentful...
...Pierce Long. (The new president he installed, Dr. James Monroe Smith, is now in the sixth year of an 8-to-24 year sentence to the state penitentiary for embezzlement.) Last week another L.S.U. controversy raged over the issue of campus kissing. Tall, leonine President William Bass ("William the Conqueror") Hatcher had frowned on good-night kisses. Pretty Sophomore Gloria Jeanne Heller, 18, issued a rebellious manifesto. "We are meant and taught to be robots," she declared. She was promptly expelled. Fellow students vainly clamored protest. Remarked an alumnus, mindful also of L.S.U.'s slipping cultural standards: "It looks...