Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franciscans turned their attention to a lengthy municipal psychiatric report on the question: "What makes women promiscuous?" Some reasons, based on interviews with 365 girls over a period of 17 months: loneliness, boredom, curiosity, spite, emotional dependence, a desire to conquer, maladaptation, poor environment, broken homes, the desire to hold a man's affections. Only 5% were interested in money, and then as an afterthought...
...World Island in turn can be dominated by the vast, mostly Russian region between the Elbe and Amur - the "Heart land" which the Germans hoped to conquer...
...judgments on the countless bitter controversies which studded the Pacific war (Was the cost of Tarawa inevitable? Was it necessary to conquer Iwo?), he is determinedly fair. As a historian, his concern is more with events themselves than with the exploits of individual heroes. But he has included his estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held...
...very critically minded as far as the Soviet Union is concerned. As long as the Russians think it is right to conquer a neighbor's territory, such as Karelia [once Finnish], but do not permit Germany to make conquests, I cannot collaborate with them. One cannot treat the matter as if nothing has happened, and I'll have nothing to do with the Soviet Union...
U.A.W. President R. J. Thomas, clinging to the union's "divide & conquer" strategy, had talked long & loud about going back to work on G.M.'s products for other motor manufacturers, but he predicted that G.M. would refuse such an offer. Next day he had such a proposal from Charlie Wilson himself. Taken by surprise. Thomas accepted by letter, only to back down a day later in the face of a rank & file revolt...