Word: conquerors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wells: "The German conqueror today . . . is in an almost precisely parallel position to Napoleon at his culmination. He has spread himself out on an immense frontage exposed to our attack and he cannot tell from hour to hour where he may not be attacked...
...next scare has had to do with the invasion of America by Hitler's army. After destroying England and capturing the English feet, the Nazi conqueror was to come over here and land his legions on our shores. Was there ever anything in that Listen in the testimony of an expert on the subject Lieut, Col. Thomas R. Phillips of the U. S. Army General Staff, as presented in an article published in "Army Ordinance," the official organ of the Army Ordnance Association! Pointing out that the modern bombing-plane has made it possible for this country to insure...
...Ward had met in the final two years ago, and the gallery began to look forward to another meeting-with Billows walloping Ward this time. But when the field narrowed down to two, Billows was on the sidelines. Facing Ward for the 36-hole final was Billows' conqueror: handsome Pat Abbott, Hollywood movie extra and onetime National Public Links golf champion...
...Staff Marshall to head G-4 (supply) section of the General Staff.* Although he has been in the Army since 1908, Gene Reybold, unlike many an engineer officer, has never smelled powder, but like most he has had wide building experience. Long a worker on U.S. rivers, and conqueror of the Ohio-Mississippi flood of 1937, he was Division Engineer at Little Rock, with a long record of crack administration behind him, when he went to the General Staff...
...narrow coast of stolid Norway, across the North Sea to the surly Low Countries and France, eastward through new-but-not-orderly Central Europe, and deep into the vitals of the sultry Balkans, something important was stirring. It was a wave of sabotage and active resistance to the conqueror on a scale heretofore unknown in World...