Word: reconquest
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...bride." No official Russian report was ever forthcoming to indicate what that knowledge was; no eyewitnesses stepped forward to refute or endorse it. Instead a host of rumors and lesser legends arose to pique the imagination with the suggestion that Hitler was alive and biding his time for reconquest; he was hiding out in Argentina, the mountains of Bavaria, the Peruvian Andes. The probate courts of West Germany, seeking to settle Hitler's estate, could establish no satisfying proof that the man was dead...
...strength in the Far East. Yet the position implied by Mr. Dulles' threats is highly questionable. Such a moral justification is seriously lacking in the case of the off-shore islands. We hold that the assumption [that the islands must be kept as possible steppingstones to the reconquest of the China mainland] is an illusion which has only explosive potentialities. The more reasonable place to draw the line of the defense perimeter of the free world is around Formosa and the Pescadores...
...hard-pressed French commanders in Indo-China seemed confident, even buoyant. "We have succeeded grouping sufficient forces to take the' initiative," said a staff officer. "I have now begun the phase of reconquest," boasted a two-star general. "We are going in as liberators, not conquerors," said another general officer just before his operation got under way. And the front, such as it is, in IndoChina 's groping guerrilla war, looked suddenly as bright and hopeful as the generals. The French moved slowly north from Seno in the blistering jungle sun; they recaptured Thakhek...
History is likely to show that this is one of the decisive events of modern times. It has given the free world a victory infinitely more important than would have been the reconquest of all North Korea...
...Coral Seedbed. Volume VII was to have been called "The Conquest of Micronesia"; Morison had to put the reconquest of the Aleutians in somewhere, and his present gazetteer title was the result. But once he washes his hands of the melted snow of the North, Morison launches into the great drive across the Central Pacific, beginning in the Gilberts. Here was the testing ground for all future amphibious operations, the sine qua non of Japan's defeat...