Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the Fabian Society or had been consciously influenced by it. Webb, now 87, had long ago (1929) overcome his aversion to titles of nobility and reluctantly consented to become Baron Passfield (though the late Beatrice refused to become Lady Passfield). But Shaw, looking for new worlds to conquer, at 90, sent the meeting a telegram...
...conquer some ready-cooked stupe...
Taking issue with Neibuhr's central thesis that Russia means to conquer all of Europe "strategically and ideologically," Friedrich said, "I don't think he could marshal conclusive evidence in support of such a contention. If you want to believe it you do." "I don't think there's going to be a war," he continued. "We'll have one scrap after another with the Soviet. Both of us are new at being the world's greatest powers, and it will take a long, long time to evolve a patter of mutually acceptable relations...
...mythical attributes of a "sacred king"-of Tammuz, the Babylonian Adonis, who annually died and rose again, whose festival occurred at the same time of year as the Jewish Passover. Jesus (says Agabus-Graves) was endowed with supernatural powers of mind and will, and he did in fact conquer death. But, far from ascending into Heaven after the Resurrection, Jesus was condemned to expiate his sins (of blasphemous pride) by becoming a ghost, an "earthbound spirit...
...across the A was the Lunghai Railroad which meandered from Sian, in China's far west, to Laoyao, a minor port on the coast. For Nationalists and Communists alike, control of this A was a strategic necessity. Through its two-way gate Nationalists could move to conquer and hold Northern China. Communists hoped to pour through it to conquer the Yangtze Valley. But if the A was the key to Peiping and the Yangtze, the keys to the A were Suchow and Kaifeng, where the Lunghai Railroad crossed the north-south lines. This was the meaning of last week...