Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II should have taught us all one lesson. The lesson is this: To vacillate, to hesitate-to appease even by merely betraying unsteady purpose-is to feed a dictator's appetite for conquest and to invite war itself. That lesson-which should have firmly guided every great decision of our leadership through these later years-was ignored in the development of the Administration's policies for Asia...
...began to play upon the fears of his audience: "The Kennan policy of containment . . . has failed." The alternative is "understanding or a third world war ... or maybe 30 years of cold war, which would be just as fatal." Echoing Malenkov, Nenni said that Russia "has no designs of conquest, since she considers her own security guaranteed." Then he had a quote from Stalin: "Our Revolution is not for export." At that point, amidst genuine laughter, someone shouted: "Mussolini said that...
Charlie Law's team is favored after its 21 to 0 conquest of New Hampton School on Saturday. Speedy Don Chatman will probably start at left half, and Mel Govig should see action at quarterback. Fullback Larry Halpern and halfback Bill Crosby will round out the starting backfield. Law will probably use the same offensive line that started against New Hampton...
Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, The Shrike is a compounded horror story. It is frightening as a possessive wife's conquest of a man who wishes desperately to escape her, and as a failure of inadequate and dangerous psychiatric techniques which become the woman's weapon...
Cold War. "Our aim ... is not conquest of territory or subjugation by force. Our aim is more subtle, more pervasive, more complete. We are trying to get the world by peaceful means to believe the truth . . . The means we shall employ . . . are often called 'psychological.' Don't be afraid of that term just because it's a five-dollar, five-syllable word. 'Psychological warfare' is the struggle for the minds and wills of men. Many people think [it] means just the use of propaganda . . . But [that] is not the most important part in this...