Word: conquere
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Limited Victory. In Moscow, the Russians had agreed to lift the blockade if the Russian mark were accepted as Berlin's only money. The Russians might use their currency as an effective weapon to conquer Berlin in the long run-depending partly on just how the men around the table settled the details. The U.S. had originally demanded that the Big Four "control" the Berlin currency. It was likely, however, that the U.S. would give in on the issue of four-power currency "control," settle for currency "supervision," whatever that might turn out to mean in practice...
...According to the historian Eusebius, in 312 A.D. the Emperor Constantine saw a flaming cross and the legend, in Greek, "By this conquer," in the noonday sky near Rome. It is said to have led to his conversion to Christianity...
...Communists might conquer all of China...
...maneuvering and by a confusing war of a hundred skirmishes with real battles. Although, in years to come, fighting might break out again & again, its probable pattern was "fixed: the Jews were too tough, too smart and too vigorous for the divided and debilitated Arab world to conquer...
...conquer the Arabs...