Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coral Seedbed. Volume VII was to have been called "The Conquest of Micronesia"; Morison had to put the reconquest of the Aleutians in somewhere, and his present gazetteer title was the result. But once he washes his hands of the melted snow of the North, Morison launches into the great drive across the Central Pacific, beginning in the Gilberts. Here was the testing ground for all future amphibious operations, the sine qua non of Japan's defeat...
...Sound of Cicadas. In one of the most moral gestures in the annals of humankind, the U.S. had sent its sons to die in Korea without hope of conquest or dream of reward. But the war hung fire, neither won nor lost, and the aggressor remained unrepentant, ready to strike again. For the U.S., public morality abroad seemed to be easier than at home. It had been a summer of suspicion and scandal. The charges of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy shrilled as insistently as the cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national...
...Korea, said Dewey to the Manhattan convention of the American Bar Association, "the United States issued an engraved invitation to Stalin to launch his conquest . . . Normally, Stalin does not need more than one engraved invitation . . ." The new mutual-defense treaties with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand are welcome, but do not go far enough: "We are going about this business by bits and pieces and getting ourselves as a nation into a dangerous position . . . What about the Philippines? The island of Formosa is essential to the defense of the Philippines [yet] our national Government has been on-again...
...faltering in the Compton Cup race (loss to Princeton) and the Eastern sprint championships (second to Yale, easy conquest of Princeton), the Crimson crew displayed none of the exceptionally fine form it had shown in practice timings. The oarsmen lived up to their promise by upsetting Penn and Navy for the Adams Cup (Harvard's tenth straight) and later by breaking the two-mile record on Lake Cayuga...
...Ulema, learned in the Koran and the Sharia [law]. They tended to be manuscript-eaters, verbal hair-splitters, not a type useful in missionary work. So far as the official religious leadership was concerned, the victories of Islam might have added up to no more than an ephemeral Arab conquest...