Word: conquer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monte Titano, just above the Borgo, the two Capitani Reggenti (Regents) and the 60 Grand Councilors of San Marino were listening with anxious faces to proposals dictated by Signor Benito Mussolini. He came and saw San Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...
...onetime [1896] Chinese Minister to Washington, Wu Ting-fang, 1896-). Finance-Dr. Ku Yin-fang (onetime associate of the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Republic"). Chiang, his "Cabinet" set up, hurried Northward with two armies, resuming the original Nationalist object of advancing to conquer Peking...
...preaching to interfere with his attention to her? She hates his cloth, his parish, his sacrifice. The parish, in turn scorns her. For 20 years her husband has struggled to reconcile her to his life. With all the sincerity she can command for a repulsive duty, she strives to conquer her own antipathy. It is not strong enough. When Benjie stays late for choir rehearsal, she locks him out of the house. When Benjie defends his conduct she rushes upon him with a fork, more murder in her maddened heart than in her weak hand...
This hot-blood from Picardy was wrestling then in his soul, between the relentless, earthy doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
...applause was sensational. Last week the troupe finished a 42-performance run through 24 cities spread over 3,500 Montana miles completed in 36 days. Pioneers never lack for new fields to conquer...