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Word: conquers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt's message was built about the theme that Axis propagandists were trying to destroy confidence of the Allied nations in each other while Axis armies seek to "divide and conquer...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/24/1942 | See Source »

...Germans are still fighting an inconclusive campaign with hard-bitten Chetniks in the Serbian mountains. The Italians last week replaced a general in their Army of Occupation who had failed to conquer the Yugoslav guerrillas. A strict curfew suddenly clamped on Belgrade indicated that the Serbian patriots were operating even in the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Delayed Dispatch | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...swept through Poland. In 1940 he conquered all the strongholds of Western Europe. In 1941 he conquered Greece and Crete-and Libya for a time. But in 1941 he tackled Russia, failed for the first time to conquer promptly and instead involved Germany in an exhausting war-a war whose strain has shaken Germany to the core and seriously undermined her chances for ultimate victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War: Man of the Year | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...MacArthur retired from the U.S. Army. To the Philippine Commonwealth he had promised that by 1946 he would make of the islands a Pacific Switzerland that would cost any invader 500,000 men, three years and more than $5,000,000,000 to conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destiny's Child | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...United States, it suffices to see the sort of human feelings that have developed from it. To all this poltroonery one cannot imagine a better antithesis than the exquisite temperance and the sublime abnegation of the Japanese. Dear, gentle, elegant, heroic Japanese! Be welcomed at our side. We will conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dear, Gentle Japanese | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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