Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). The conquest of Mexico...
...said that the reasons the Soviets do not want war are that "time is working for them," and that they like to use the Red Army as the final instrument of political conquest. "They prefer to use political infiltration rather than military aggression," he added...
...dipped into Soviet Scriptures: "Lenin pointed out in 1923 that the outcome of the world's struggle between capitalism and Communism depends in the long run on the fact that Russia, China and India comprise the overwhelming majority of the [earth's] population." With the Communist conquest of China, the Asia Firsters had something to brag about...
Marching north over the bleak, desolate, road to Munsan that night, in the true spirit of independence, but with no designs of conquest, was the widow Ahn Nam-chang and her little family. It was the first full moon of the lunar new year and, in accordance with age-old custom, peasant folk were cracking open the hard little Korean walnuts to foretell the future. No matter that Korea lay devastated by war, there was still a future. If the kernels came out whole, that was a good omen. On the other hand, if they came out broken, that...
...Beauvoir, she would very likely fling wide her French window and bomb him with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...