Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plain truth is that Mr. Jones fell down rather badly on the job, . . . The proof of an official's worth to his country lies in his ability to meet and conquer the kind of obstacles of which Mr. Jones complains...
Untested. To reach these modern treasures, without warring on Turkey, the Axis must strike back from Rhodes and other Dodecanese islands and either conquer Cyprus or by-pass it. In a by-pass the normally confused Italian navy would be wide open to flank attacks. To conquer Cyprus, the Axis planes would be farther away (200 miles) from land bases than in last year's attack on Crete. Even if British fighter planes were chased off Cyprus bases, there were other fields only 66 miles away on the Syrian mainland...
...Hitler (in 1920)-"Today brute force can conquer only by assuming a socialist, a revolutionary cloak. Never can Germany win a war if England is fighting actively on the opposing side. Only by ideologically destroying it from within can Germany conquer Europe. By brute force alone-never...
...Said Colonial Secretary Lord Cranborne: "If the Indian leaders would get together and devise some scheme which would be satisfactory to all, the Indian problem would be satisfactorily solved." Said Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax: "We are anxious and prepared to do our part, but . . . they first must conquer the fundamental difficulty, that of unification between the Hindu and Moslem parties...
...Nazis and the Japanese is to separate the United States, Britain, China and Russia, and to isolate them one from another, so that each will be surrounded and cut off from sources of supplies and reinforcements. It is the old familiar Axis policy of 'Divide and Conquer...