Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan's High Command knows how large is her reserve of oil. But all the world knows that Japan's reserve of time is growing short. Japan has been under oil blockade for two months, and before her oil is gone she must move or renounce her imperialist ambitions...
...became an ardent imperialist, wrote "an epoch-making memorandum on colonization and sea power." As anonymous as the Nazi emissaries of the pre-war days, von Ribbentrop or Otto Abetz, Father Joseph wandered about Europe, apparently a poor itinerant, actually the center of a power government, whose designs on its neighbors he furthered through countless contacts and intrigues...
Senator George is no rum-&-ruin imperialist. He knows that French Martinique is a dirty, uneconomic hole. That it is a place of open sewers and shoeless feet. That its desperate romantic crumbs-Napoleon's Empress Josephine was born there, and Louis XIV's Madame de Maintenon lived there-are not enough to make up for its boredom. That it grows a little sugar, much of which goes into rum, and that the beguine began there. That it is very congenial to malaria, typhoid, leprosy, syphilis and the dobie itch...
Campaign by Talk. Having furthered Japanese imperialist expansion in Manchuria and North China, Yosuke Matsuoka was just the man to explain to the world Japan's case after Japan seized Manchuria in 1931. He was sent as chief delegate to the Plenary Session of the League of Nations, which was considering the Lytton Report on the China-Japan conflict. There he conducted a dramatic rearguard campaign in a series of unconventional, eloquent, unrehearsed speeches in which he dragged in even Christ...
Captain William Dilworth Puleston, U.S.N., onetime Chief of Naval Intelligence and author of the authoritative Mahan: The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahon, understands the Japanese people principally as sailors good and true. An old-line imperialist, he sees the Far Eastern issue in terms of the Open Door...