Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final judgment on whether it was all worthwhile depends upon its effect on both sides in decisions yet to be taken. If Korea has taught the Communists a lesson, if it has set back their timetable of conquest and roused free men against them, then a great good has been achieved. The other half of the verdict waits on the people of the U.S., for what has been gained by Korea could be undone, if Korean losses and a subsequent disillusionment persuade the U.S. to duck the next challenge...
...soft green islands of Indonesia, lifting their distant volcanoes against flashing thunderheads, lie melancholy and mysterious in the warm blue seas between the continents of Asia and Australia. U.S. and allied military forces swept through these islands in a few months of World War II, liberating them from Japanese conquest. Because the Roosevelt Administration objected violently to colonialism, the U.S. was determined that the islands should also be liberated from the Dutchmen who for more than 300 years had been masters of Indonesia...
...Communists] are talking about peace it is not as you and I are talking about peace. When we talk about peace we're talking about real peace. When the Communists are talking about peace they're talking about something else; they're talking about conquest...
...type matematician who reluctantly succumbs to her mating-call. Enter two Satyrs on the make. Unable to find suitable females (the chorus is full of "dried up wretches") they sublimate with a bottle of wine, after invoking the services of a good-natured Bacchus. The Soprano decides that the conquest of a god would give immortal proof of her powers. The Satyrs push the unwilling Bacchus into her arms, but he soon grows sated with her singing. "The only cure for excessive vocal production is immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes...
...victory, which has profoundly influenced both our strategic concepts in the field and our supporting action at home . . ." He repeated his belief that Russia would not be provoked into a global war by more positive U.S. action in the Far East:. if Russia is intent on "world military conquest," it will choose its own "time and place" of attack...