Word: conquere
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...sense, the battle has been raging ever since the breakup of medieval Christendom. Before Tudor times, Englishmen believed in the Catholic version of the landmass theory. They even tried to climb onto the Continent by attempting to conquer and rule France in the Hundred Years' War. But ever since Christendom split into Protestant and Catholic wings, Britons have been opposed to European unification. Marlborough, Pitt and Wellington have all fought to keep a balance of power on the European continent, and the small trading nations-The Netherlands, the Scandinavian countries-have usually welcomed British intercession. When madmen like...
...Americans and British had clinched a useful victory in southern Europe. In 29 days they had overrun more than 20,000 square miles of territory inhabited by 8,000,000 people. The timetable had improved over the last one in Sicily, where the Allies needed 38 days to conquer 10,000 square miles. They were one-third the long way up Italy's boot, well on the way to Rome. Around Salerno, the hard-fighting Fifth had lost nearly 10,000 killed, wounded and missing, about equally divided between Americans and British. The cost for so large an advantage...
...drive out pulque the Government must conquer a superstition, smash a major industry. The superstition dates centuries before Cortés. This fall as in hundreds of years past, many a peon still trudged miles up into the mountains to participate in a bibulous ritual on the site where Ome Tochtli's idol once stood. As an industry, pulque employes a million and a half persons, covers a million acres of land...
...Premier Tanaka had said; "In order to conquer China, we must conquer Manthuria and Mongolia. In order to conquer the world, we must first conquer China...
Then, just as today, a dictator had tried to conquer Europe and flopped. The victorious powers of Russia, Prussia and Austria got together to keep peace by force...