Word: conquering
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Sometimes he stoops to conquer rhymes in doggerel that only Tinpan Alley would applaud...
...object to the designation 'puppet state' for Manchukuo. That was one of the errors of the Lytton Report. There is a certain analogy between the Japanese-Manchukuo relationship and the United States-Cuba relationship, but there is also this difference: Japan did not first conquer Manchukuo and then give it virtual independence. Manchukuo sprang into being as an independent state. As such it is not a protectorate, just a friendly nation. . . . Your country has not made the sacrifices in developing its neighbors that Japan has made in Manchuria. I question whether the United States would permit the territory...
Hitlerism, In what sign does the pudgy little vegetarian with the Charlie Chaplin mustache conquer...
...long attacks on Shanghai. Yet these forts were anciently equipped, poorly named, and in terrible want of men and ammunition. But just as the Japanese could not take those forts new, so their boast to take Jehol in 15 days will lead to the result that they will not conquer the province in 150 days...
When General (later President) Chiang Kai-shek marched out of Canton in 1926, taking the route or highway north to conquer all China, he was joined by 24 Chinese divisions, each known by its historic numeral and the honorable title Lo Chun ("Route Army"). Most famed is the Sze Chin Lo Chun ("19th Route Army") because of its battle against hopeless odds to defend Shanghai (TIME. March...