Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time, some of the most telling effects are gained through a tongue-in-the-cheek subtlety. When the doddering idiot of a king is told to account for the presence of the soldier class by explaining that they are the conquering subjects, he innocently announces that they conquer the subjects. And when this same monarch is called upon to speak to his pugilistic parliament, his crafty prime minister starts a phonograph going beneath the royal robes. This is quite impressive until the minister in his vehemence breaks the record and the needle keeps repeating in the same...
...expect to see affairs move swiftly, even though you cannot report all you see. I am certain to see you all again in various localities of the front where I shall often go to see with my own eyes how our soldiers are ready to march, fight, and conquer. . . . Under our rather strict censorship, however, no information of Italian military moves may be given, and no name of commanders may be mentioned...
...cash that never in modern times has she been able to make more than a roulette player's cast on the world's battlefields for the supreme prize of Power. The classic roulette odds of 36 to 1 approximately represented Italy's chance to conquer and to hold against other players, all of Ethiopia, even before sanctions were declared. But it is possible to win heavily at roulette...
Forty miles southeast of Addis Ababa at Mojjo last week a Greek named Yani Tchanokos said in the hearing of Ethiopians, "It would be a fine thing if the Italians did conquer this country...
...Remain sweet and serene in order to conquer the desperation of separation...