Word: conquering
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What enables the wise sovereign and good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge...
Expectant and exulting, all Britain waited for the crowning to begin. This was pleasure anticipated and known. But 4,000 miles away, in the silence of the Himalayas, a little band of Britons fought time and the uncertain elements to conquer for their Queen earth's highest spire...
...Laos, there is a wide, grassy plateau which the French call the Plaine des Jarres because of the ancient stone burial urns dotted about the landscape. According to French military thinking, the invading Viet Minh Communists "had to pass through" the Plaine des Jarres on their way to conquer Laos. There last week, in a two-mile perimeter around an airstrip, the French were hastily improvising a defense system of barbed wire and entrenchments. Soon Legionnaires and loyal Laotian troops were as securely trussed-up in their "hedgehog" as the ancient Laotians in their old stone jars...
...could do so without violating security. On the other hand, he vigorously opposes giving any secret atomic information to the allies, even Great Britain, because "they are too lenient with traitors." Confident that the U.S. is far ahead in atomic development, Cole nevertheless sees a great, new field to conquer. Said he: "We have advanced so far in stockpiling and capacity to produce A-bombs and weapons that we can afford to turn some of our attention to the development of atomic energy for industrial power...
Last week in his third-floor apartment, the general-who supports himself and his pretty Polish wife by managing a floor-wax company-was busy planning his future battles against the Red army. "By now the world should know that foreign armies will never conquer Russia," he said. "Only a nationalist army of Russians, fighting Communism but not Russia, can ever hope to succeed. The cadre of that army meets in this room every Saturday. One day the world will call us." Meanwhile, the floor-wax business is fairly brisk...