Word: conquests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took the Bolsheviks ten years to proclaim their first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...
Coach Bill McCurdy sends his track team out for another conquest of local talent at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow when the Crimson takes on Boston College at Briggs Cage. The trackmen will be after their third straight win, having already defeated Boston University and the University of Rhode Island...
...manager helped add chagrin to defeat when he scored an extra point in Yale's 41 to 14 conquest of the Crimson November...
...September 1946, for example, Joe was at his pious best. Asked Correspondent Alexander Werth of the London Sunday Times: "Do you believe that the quickest withdrawal of all American forces in Chi na is vitally necessary for the future of peace?" Replied Stalin (whose Commu nist armies completed their conquest of China three years later) : "Yes, I do." At some dark hour of last week, while the Western world was getting ready for its Christmas, Joe reached into his hopper for the newest question list from...
...Truman Administration has never admitted any misjudgment; the State Department's white paper of 1949, still the official line, holds that the Communist conquest of China had nothing to do with anything U.S. diplomats did or failed to do. And only last February, after a departmental hearing, State cleared the loyalty of John Carter Vincent, once the most influential of its Old China Hands. Secretary Dean Acheson himself gave Vincent "best wishes" and assurance of "full confidence...