Word: overruning
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Silence lay over the islands that the Japanese had overrun. That silence was to be expected from the 600,000 Moros of the South, one of the most warlike peoples in the world, who approved U.S. rule, did not want Philippine independence, could be counted on to resist the Japanese as fiercely as they once resisted the Spaniards and the Americans. Silence was to be expected from the Ilocanos, the ingenious "Yankees of the Philippines" in whose villages life followed its immemorial pattern regardless of conquest. Silence was expected from the Chinese who tend the stores in the villages...
...held twice as much of the world's steel capacity as the Axis, most of its wheat, most of the materials needed for making war or prospering in peace. But half of the nations were small, isolated, scattered from Costa Rica to Luxembourg. Eight of them had been overrun by the Axis. Two-China and Russia -were partially occupied, and the occupied portions were rich and populous...
...Parliament. They blamed the war on capitalist greed. They attacked Prime Minister Churchill as a "commercial imperialist." Jock McGovern called the Churchill-Roosevelt Atlantic Charter "one of the grossest pieces of deceit in modern times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence of our own colonial peoples" was "humbug, deceit and hypocrisy of the worst kind." He declared that the U.S. was ready...
Iceland, whose Parliament began meeting on the sounding, desolate plains of Thingvellir (pronounced Thing-vod-lef) in 930 A.D., found itself overrun by British and U.S. soldiers, all with a healthy taste for blondes. Prices had risen 70% in less than a year and a half. Fishermen-fishing is Iceland's chief industry-netted almost as many mines as fish. The State liquor monopoly was being wrecked by bootlegging. Premier Hermann Jónasson's Cabinet had fallen twice in less than a month. The 1,011-year-old Parliament (the Althing) had rejected price-control plans...
...south the Germans threw their greatest effort against a little swampy neck of land only four miles wide. They were determined to crack the Perekop Isthmus and overrun the Crimean Peninsula, no matter what the cost...