Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British fleets and landed their forces at will around the southern seas, they toyed between plans to go for India, Australia or Hawaii. It was Doolittle's Tokyo raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this outpost as an advance base for Japanese air patrols. As naval strategists they calculated that the attack would draw out the last remnant of the U.S. fleet-including those annoying U.S. flattops...
...famed Triumvirate, or rule of three, had begun, and at first Caesar did not find three a crowd. Caesar was 39 before he had an active troop command, 41 when he began his conquest of Gaul; yet he proved a legendary general...
...Hale's words were inspired by a line from one of his favorite plays, Joseph Addison's Cato. The line: "What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country!" Another line from the same play-"Chains, or conquest; liberty, or death"-is believed to be the source of Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty, or give me death...
...polio discoveries of Dr. John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and two other Faculty members led to the development of the Salk vaccine, Enders' isolation of the measles virus may be the first step toward the possible conquest of the disease...
...program is be ing transmitted in 37 languages by the Voice of America) could understand. The people of the U.S. could understand that these two men were not about to surrender to Communist wiles; the people of neutral nations could understand that the U.S. was not plotting the conquest of the world...