Word: overrun
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...Korea is the Austria of Asia: it was the first country overrun and exploited by the Asiatic aggressor. In other ways the parallel fails. The Japs are far more afraid of Korea than the Nazis are of Austria. To the Japanese, the Koreans are "inscrutable," as the Japanese themselves are to westerners. Ever since Japan took Korea in 1904, its Korean policy has wavered between uneasy placating and frantic terrorism. Grapevine news reaching the Korean National Front Federation in the U.S. last week showed quite clearly that Japan, however busy it might be elsewhere, could not turn its back...
...will to win among the French people. The third cause was a miscalculation on the part of the French leader, Marshal Petain, who failed to take into account the strength of the British will to win. Expecting the British to yield, he surrendered before the Germans should completely overrun his homeland...
...Russia down. They have just taken Moscow." Last month, when Bir Hachėim held out longer than he expected, he rode among his tanks and infantry, bellowing: "Men of the Afrika Korps, be of good heart. Our glorious Führer informs me that his forces have overrun Sevastopol...
...made his living by ribbing the tolerant Third Republic, which he called "the whore." Now it was gone. France, which he loved, was overrun with Germans-"uniformed blackguards, helmeted swine." The Royalist cause, of which he had been the loudest & funniest champion, was all but forgotten. And the good wines of France, which he claimed would "improve bad heredity, amplify good heredity," were mostly being used for the improvement of Nazis. There was little left for him to live for when, last week, death came to old Léon Daudet, 74, longtime editor of Paris' L' Action...
...year and a half ago OPM desperately called in all U.S. firms who might be able to manufacture jewels, urged them to have a try at it. For the Nazis had overrun Holland and France, bottled up Switzerland -the countries whence the U.S. formerly imported nearly all its synthetic jewels (as many as 100,000,000 a year). Only one company, Union Carbide & Carbon, volunteered to make synthetics. It alone produced the great volumes of hydrogen and oxygen which are essential in making them...