Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elsewhere in the pagan world. Polytheism was at the heart of Mecca's economic and social life. If Mecca took a strong stand for a particular god, Mecca's pilgrim business would die. The practical choice for Mecca was polytheism or, if it elected monotheism, the political conquest of all Arabia and the imposition of its one-God religion. To a man, the Mec can leaders rejected Mohammed. But he persisted even after he gradually came to realize that his spiritual kingdom did not have a of of spreading unless it also achieved a kingdom of this world...
...Years of Conquest...
...tennis singles stayed at a high competitive pitch this week as top-seeded John Rauh eked out a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 conquest over Kenneth "Tug" Wilson, and then beat Matt Reynolds 6-2, 6-2, to move into the quarter finals...
...know whether the Communists really desire peace in Korea," he said, "or whether they are simply trying to gain by negotiations what they have not been able to gain by conquest. We intend to find that...
...whatever happens in Korea, we must not make the mistake of jumping to the conclusion that the Soviet rulers have given up their ideas of world conquest. . . They are putting themselves in the position where they can commit new acts of aggression at any time." Then he passed along a piece of intelligence: Rumania recently cleared a strip of land 30 miles deep along her Yugoslav border. "Bulgaria and Hungary have done the same thing. Military preparations have been going on in those zones along the border...