Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be in a better position if Rommel extends his control of the southern Mediterranean to Suez. Then the Germans could move forces from southern Europe through Nazi waters, giving them thorough air protection. Then they would stand all too good a chance to by-pass or conquer Cyprus, to pierce the thinly held Syrian shore line by concerted sea, air and land assaults...
Below us spread hills and trails over which I had retreated in 1938 with Chinese armies driven back upon Hankow by the great Japanese force seeking to capture the Yangtze Valley and conquer China by one blow. It was almost like coming home. Mountains gave way to hills and around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose...
Such division in the face of the enemy might seem a setup for Nazi divide-&-conquer tactics. But a prime guerrilla lesson learned in China has been that guerrilla effectiveness is increased if the bands are free to strike where split-second opportunities arise. Thus the Balkan way seemed the best way, and last week that method could point to these accomplishments...
...world's iron; without her, 48%; with Russia, 37% of the bauxite (principally for aluminum); without her, 31%. Last week dispatches reported that the Germans were already using manganese from captured Russian mines. Hitler's Germany, operating with available supplies, has had the power to conquer most of Europe. Add in the raw materials, the factories and captive workers of European Russia, and the result is ominous for the United Nations' immediate future, whatever their long-range potentialities...
...Banner. It was to the peasant face and soul of Timoshenko and all Russia that Stalin, the man with the superlative Russian face, spoke last May Day: "They [Red soldiers, sailors and airmen] have learned to hate the German fascist invaders. They know it is impossible to conquer the enemy without learning to hate him with all their souls' fibers...