Word: conquering
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...Prosperity! I am not in the fortunate position of the Soviet Jews. Nevertheless, the problems of Germany must be solved! There is no such thing as saying it cannot be done. It can be done-because it must be done! . . . Let [Russia] carry her Soviet star, we will conquer in the sign of the swastika. If the hour ever comes when our old adversary makes an attempt upon us, you will be standing beside, behind and before me, and will help me fight...
...while seeming to be absorbed in immediate affairs. The second was that Napoleon's cynicism and his belief in the limitless corruptibility of human beings was a deep weakness, blinding him to the possibility of an alliance against him that he could not disrupt. Since few aristocrats could conquer their prejudice enough to study the Emperor carefully, Metternich had a great advantage in the negotiations of the allies, soon maneuvered a weak, twice-defeated Austria into a decisive position among European powers...
...Quirinal Palace last week was called Sir Aldo Castellani, the great Anglo-Italian physician whose work as Sanitary High Commissioner for East Africa made Italians able to fool pessimists who said their army could never live and conquer amid the heat and pullulating pestilences of Ethiopia. Sir "Aldo's title of British knighthood was superseded as His Majesty conferred on him the hereditary Italian title Count of Chisimaio...
...Rain. Following Italy's successful war to conquer the Ethiopian Empire in a single dry season, there began the war of pacification which may well last years. With it came the awful rains which turn much of Ethiopia yearly into a swamp...
...employer association delegates to sit ultimately in the councils of the Bank of France, threatened Frenchmen who have funds abroad with confiscation of equivalent funds unless the foreign deposit is reported to the Government, and implied that his "Baby Bonds" had better find quick buyers-or else. "We must conquer egotism and fear!" cried Vincent Auriol with something of Franklin Roosevelt's lilt. "Already I have in my hand a list of citizens who have evaded their duty by not reporting funds abroad. We must conquer fraud and fear...