Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religion can be stressed too much, Norton warned; then the courses turn into "a Christ Conquest." He also raised doubts as to how many would visit the chaplain...
EDUCATION: The Quick and the Dead (NBC) for "dwelling on the good as well as the evil that lies in the conquest of nuclear energy...
Douglas MacArthur believed that "here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest," and that the battle might be lost before Harry Truman decided it had begun. Harry Truman, as the first of 18,000 telegrams and 50,000 letters poured in, knew that he faced the biggest political storm of his stormy political career...
...letter to Republican Minority Leader Joe Martin, MacArthur wrote bitterly: "My views and recommendations have been submitted to Washington in most complete detail. It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest... that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words, that if we lose the war to Communism in Asia, the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom...
...With the development of existing methods of mass destruction, numbers alone do not offset vulnerability inherent in . . . deficiencies . . . [in] tanks, heavy artillery and other refinements science has introduced into the conduct of military campaigns . . . Red China . . . has been shown its complete inability to accomplish by force of arms the conquest of Korea...