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Assistant Defense Secretary Anna Rosenberg, who in 1944 was pinned down by German machine-gun fire at a forward command post near Metz, was in Korea last week for another firsthand look at war. "I've never seen anything like it," she said. "Our troops conquer one hill and go right on to the next. They are thrown back and then recapture it, are thrown back and then recapture it. There is no rest, no respite. We haven't the remotest idea of the kind of warfare our men are engaged...
Wellesley and Radcliffe have merged forces to conquer Cambridge. Deciding that the constant fight over which school has jurisdictional rights over Harvard and M.I.T. only resulted in a loss of objectives to Vassar and smith, the two will divide Cambridge and each take a half...
...Yellow Kid. By 1895, having perfected his techniques of carnival journalism, he felt ready to conquer Manhattan. He had $7½-million with him, and he was ready to bet it all on his new paper, the Morning Journal. One day Hearst rocked Pulitzer by buying away the entire Sunday staff of his World-including Morrill Goddard, who was to steer the blatant American Weekly toward the world's biggest circulation with such stories as NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO THE FRONT DOOR. From then on W.R.'s Journal outplayed the World at its own scare...
Immediately, Mohammed put the Medinans to work, raiding caravans, converting pagans, blockading Mecca from the north. In 630, Mecca gave in. As the Meccan leaders had foreseen, Mohammed had to conquer all Arabia to make the conversion of Mecca stick. This he did - brilliantly - before his death...
...fight that war to drive the British out of the North American continent ... to destroy the military power of England, or to wipe out the British Empire. We fought it for the simple, limited aim of securing the right to be free . . . We are not fighting [in Korea] ... to conquer China, or to destroy...