Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland to conquer England. And thrice since then this coast has been seriously threatened by an invading army...
...Love Came Back (Warner) is based on the supposition that if a group of down-at-lip jazzbabies suddenly began swinging such melodies as Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, a Chopin Nocturne, and Mendelssohn's violin Concerto in E Minor, their daring would astound and conquer the musical world. Such a feat bowls over Amelia Cornell (Olivia de Havilland), who has a violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger...
...speech ("The watchword is only one, categoric and binding: CONQUER!") Mussolini said Italy's continental objectives would be sought first. maritime ones later. This turned all eyes toward expected action on the French Riviera and Alpine border-Nice and Savoy. But last week when France gave up, all the Italians had to do was march...
These protestations did not satisfy U. S. Pundit Walter Lippmann, who shook a stern forefinger and warned: "President Vargas made it clear to us that if we permit the Axis to win in Europe, the Axis will not have to conquer what it covets in South America. . . . There will be dictators . . . who will ally themselves with Hitler and Mussolini. . . . Our problem, then, will not be how to defend this hemisphere against Europe. Our problem will be how to defend ourselves in this hemisphere...
...already wings over and enflames hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: conquer...