Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That is what unites us-men and women of all sections, of all races, of all faiths, of all occupations, of all political beliefs. That is why we have been able to defy and frustrate the enemies who believed they could divide us and conquer us from within...
...cannot venture to prophesy when, where and how Great Britain will conquer. But that she will conquer I am sure, because I have more confidence in British toughness than in German energy, and because ultimately I ascribe greater historical weight to the better cause . . . than to the evil and fundamentally fantastic cause of Adolf Hitler...
...even supposing a vast amount of Russian industrial and agricultural suicide, minerals could not be wrecked in the ground, fertile fields could not be set afire. Hitler was presumably not trying to conquer Russia just for the day or the year. The question remained as to what he might get, given a reasonable time for regrowth and repairs. Generalizations could be made about an imagined conquest of European Russia (west of the Urals) if Asiatic Russia, from the Urals to the Pacific, remained in the hands of a refugee Russian Government...
...regards the war, he is ready to go a long way to beat the Nazis to their knees. The FORTUNE Survey finds that by majorities as big as, and bigger than, those with which he re-elects Franklin Roosevelt, the citizen believes Hitler means to conquer the world; is willing to risk war to help Britain win; would pay willingly twice his present taxes on luxuries like movies, tobacco and liquor; would put up without complaint with a general sales tax if the U.S. were at war; would cut his gasoline consumption by a third; would gladly train...
...post-World War I years, when he was considered a ranting radical, he used to tell his fellow officers: "Mobility is needed to carry the war home, to reach the decision, to conquer. Mobility means live men arriving and establishing themselves in possession of the military objectives. To live and move quickly against the gun requires protection. Armor gives protection in movement. The gasoline engine moves armor. And so we come to what is called mechanization." He also said: ". . . The tank is not a new weapon; the Roman legionnaire with his shield, the armored elephants of Hannibal . . . were in reality...