Word: conqueror
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...Armies had had successes which, according to the fustian of the Führer, "baffled the imagination." Yet this crucial Blitz was not quite on schedule; the Russians were not easy to demoralize and not cheap to beat. And every conqueror since the Tartars had broken his teeth on the Russian bite (see p. 20). He, his Führer and his soldiers might still break their military teeth beyond repair. Or they might taste the sweetest glory...
While the rest of Soviet Russia stood to its guns last week awaiting a conqueror from the west, scientists far east in Samarkand pried into the tomb of the mightiest conqueror of them all, Tamerlane the Great...
Under a three-ton marble slab were five rough slabs of limestone. Under them, the ebony coffin in which the conqueror lay in robes " of gold brocade. Except for the head, the skeleton was well-preserved in musk and rose water, and the scientists discovered that philology was right (Tamerlane comes from Timur Leuk, meaning Timur the Lame) : his right leg was shorter than his left. With him were buried two sons and his astronomer grandson, Ulugh...
...time, the Mongol conqueror ruled some of Europe, most of Asia and sired the Great Moguls of India. He died in 1405, just after his most successful campaign, while on his way to conquer China. Location of his tomb was well-known, but, according to legend, had long since been looted by Persians...
...smiled unctiously at Adolf Hitler at Brennero he must have remembered the day, almost seven years ago, when he rushed an Army into the Brenner Pass and frightened Young Dictator Hitler out of grabbing Austria. In those seven years the ridiculous little man whom Mussolini belittled had become the conqueror of Europe. Yet even victorious Dictator Hitler was a prisoner of his conquests: he must conquer new worlds to be safe in the world he has conquered. And his prisoner, Aging Dictator Mussolini, must help him to conquer them...