Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herr Hitler's frantic preoccupation with Africa the Russian winter offensive had exploded. In the central sector around Rzhev the Russians launched another attack. In both sectors Hitler's troops stumbled backward over the frozen graves of Axis soldiers who had already died in the attempt to conquer Russia...
More cheering to aviation enthusiasts was Patterson's belief that the air lines will be kept busy pioneering new commercial routes, that they have a whole unexplored new world to conquer where transportation is inadequate...
...Some of the practices of the Rockefellers and the Hewitts were felonics by any civilized standards. But, not content with mere condemnation, the authors of "The Age of Enterprise" make a stab at explanation. In their eyes, business for almost a century was a lusty young giant trying to conquer a continent. Like most lusty young giants, it managed to stage a few orgiastic riots...
Last week the men of Vichy gave the impression that they were readier to crumble than to conquer. The querulous, totalitarian old figurehead, Marshal Petain, quavered in a letter to President Roosevelt: "It is with stupor and sadness that I learned tonight of the aggression of your troops. ... It is you [who] have taken such a cruel initiative...
...upsets featured yesterday's doings on the House football front. The afternoon saw Eliot rise to conquer Lowell 7-0, and Dunster play unbeaten Leverett to a scoreless standstill. All four teams were not at full strength because of conflicting exams...