Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conquer...
...Bellboys snapped back Wednesday evening to conquer an outclassed Adams five, 30 to 8. Lowell rolled up 20 quick points in the first period before the Gold Coasters could score, Shaw Livermore accounting for Adams' four baskets...
...later, in a soberer mood, thoughtful citizens looked beyond those scapegoats. Pearl Harbor was no isolated event: it was the culmination of a foreign policy which had resulted in war. The U.S., to gain time for an inevitable war with Japan-inevitable unless Japan was to be allowed to conquer Asia-had appeased Japan by selling her oil and scrap iron, and then had begun to squeeze Japan by gradually cutting off these supplies...
...Franklin, great explorers, had perished trying to do what Larsen had done. The only man to make the east-west passage before him was Roald Amundsen. Larsen, too, was a Norwegian, born some nine miles from Amundsen's birthplace in Borge, Norway. As Amundsen's ambition to conquer the Arctic had been fired by Franklin's exploits, so Larsen had been kindled by what Amundsen had done...
...great scientific achievements of World War II is: 1) The jet-propulsion engine. 2) The robot submarine. 3) A better explosive than TNT. 4) An insecticide that promises to conquer mosquitoes, bedbugs, roaches, flies. 5) A wonder drug twice as effective as penicillin...