Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio in Kinshasa, Zaïre's capital, called the invaders an army of "mercenaries led by other mercenaries from across the Atlantic and prompted by a third country with an ideology of international conquest"-clearly a charge that the Cubans were involved actively and the Russians indirectly. In fact the soldiers were Zaïrian rebels who had fought in the army of Katangese Leader Moise Tshombe in the early 1960s. Remember Tshombe? He tried to set up his own regime in the copper-wealthy province of Katanga and secede from the Congo. After the central government crushed...
...coming years the developed world and the United States, those nations where a high standard of living is followed by low birth rate, will have a responsibility to help pull the Third Worldout of its morass. But ultimately the conquest of over-population and hunger must take place in the poor nations themselves...
...Crimson took temporary control. Co-captain Milt Yasunga (126 lbs.) whipped Bulldog Craig Davis for the third year running, 5-1. Bob Cusumano (134 lbs.) plastered his foe, 8-1, and Brian Adler (142 lbs.) took the place of the injured Bill Mulvihill and came away with his first conquest of the season...
This development also occurs in Cavafy's historical poetry, which focuses particularly on ancient Alexandria from the age of the Ptolemies to the Arab conquest in the 7th century, although the poet also branched out to other areas of the Panhellenic world and to other historical time periods. In his re-creation of history, Cavafy is selective, searching out historical byways and frequently portraying events from the perspective of the "victim" rather than the "manipulator." Thus, "the game of nations interests Cavafy primarily because of what it reveals about basic, perennial attitudes or emotions and only secondarily because of what...
...Nazis committed genocide against the Jews, attempted the territorial conquest of Europe, and launched a war in which 100 million people died...