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Word: conquers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desert troops 50 miles along the coast of northwestern Egypt to Sidi Barráni. There he stopped, or was stopped. Ahead of him, along a salt-scarred road-a three-hour run in a fast tank-lay Mersa Matruh, first major objective in Italy's drive to conquer Egypt, a prize the Fascist press at home could shout through the streets as noisily as the populace once roared at slaves in clanking chains. But Graziani waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Turtle in the Desert | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...means certain last week that Adolf Hitler would conquer Great Britain before winter, or even that he would try. The Empire was more vulnerable. For the defense of the Isles Britain had drawn on the Empire's defenses; her life line was weak in many places. On one weak place, Egypt, Hitler's Axis partner was whittling already (see p. 27). Others looked equally tempting: Africa, land of gold and diamonds; the Near East, land of oil; even India, the Empire's slightly tarnished jewel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dividing Up the World | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...wouldn't it be better and a lot more useful and wiser to contribute this money to the war cause and arrange your own hair and manicure your own nails as thousands of us women do. And if Hitler does conquer England, as he seems to be doing, I don't believe it will matter much if Wally has a new permanent or if she wears a new color on her fingertips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1940 | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Perry in his letter said that Hitler is threatening the United States and that he will turn on us as soon s he can conquer Europe. "Against America Hitler has made the most terrible of all threats namely, to save and protect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RALPH BARTON PERRY URGES SUPPORT OF BRITAIN, STRONG ARMAMENTS FOR U. S. | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Presidency. Then he embarked for Guatemala where, his followers announced, he would set up revolutionary headquarters in "an anti-Communist atmosphere." There he was also certain of the good will of Napoleonesque President-Dictator Jorge Ubico, who once bragged that with 300,000 trained troops he could invade and conquer the whole of sprawling Mexico. No friend of the Cardenas regime, Dictator Ubico has treated Mexican labor agitators to firing squads, has conducted his foreign policy along distinctly anti-Mexican lines. As host to Claimant Almazán, he will be more likely than ever to close an official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Two Congresses | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

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