Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets do not see how they could occupy and/or control the U.S. But they do see how their conquest of all Eurasia would leave them at the end of the war in a position vis-à-vis the U.S. better than their present position. It is this vision not Nikita Khrushchev's present position. It is this vision that gives confidence to Russian spokesmen and drive to Russian diplomacy...
...They are ignoring the fact that if total darkness should fall upon the world it would be they who have made the Communist conquest possible by destroying the will to fight. They would be achieving what Communist imperialism could never have hoped to achieve if the will to stand firm had been kept high...
...buildings yet to come. For Kubitschek, who plans to transfer 8,000 government workers to the new capital by 1960, it was a moment for an oratorical allusion to Brasilia's role as steppingstone to the vast, undeveloped interior of Brazil. The new capital, he said, "is the conquest of all that has been ours only...
Said saddened Air Force Chief of Staff Tommy White, referring to the newsmen who died on Cocoa: "We share with them the conquest of time and space. They share with us the dangers of that conquest . . . The men who observe and report the achievements of science and skill ... are partners in these achievements. They are also partners in the sacrifices that are sometimes the price of progress...
...Gaulle got his way. Less than 18 years after the defeated Third Republic voted itself out of existence in the Casino at Vichy, the parliamentary government of France was again declaring itself bankrupt. But this time France's Parliament was capitulating not to foreign conquest but to internal dissatisfaction. But this time the man to whom France had turned was a symbol not of defeat but of desperate hope...