Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the streets I wander onward merrily, See how the folks look round, Because they know I'm charming, A very charming girl. And then 'tis mine to mark the hidden longing And all the passion in their eyes; And then the joy of conquest overcomes me- Every man is my prize...
...Russian conquest of Western Europe and the United States would result in the collapse of the Communist-totalitarian system, pacifist Quaker Cecil Hinshaw predicted last night...
...tried to block the Normandy invasion at the Churchill-Stalin-F.D.R. meeting in Teheran he brands as completely false. He backed the plan to the hilt. Nor, says Churchill, did he,try for a Balkan invasion. What he did fight for, and did not get, was a conquest of the Aegean Islands that might bring Turkey into the war on the allied side. Because they blocked his pet plan, both F.D.R. and Eisenhower got a taste of Churchillian wrath: "There ought, I think, to be some elasticity and a reasonable latitude in the handling of our joint affairs...
Space cadets will surely enjoy the show at the Hayden Planetarium, 81st and Central Park West. "The Conquest of Space" has five showings on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays; three otherwise...
What would such a victory be? Not simple "containment" of Soviet Russia. For a contained Russia, still conspiratorial, still bent on world conquest, still atomically armed, would remain a dangerous and treacherous Russia, letting no free man sleep soundly. What the U.S. wanted was a world in which men could sleep in peace...