Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimatum. It had dawdled so long over the British loan (TIME, May 6) that one day last week Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley lurched angrily from his front-row seat and, with ill-concealed irritation, served notice that he would resist "with all the powers at my command" any attempt to sidetrack the loan bill for anything else, not even the draft law, which is due to expire...
...been set up: 1) in the grand ballroom, to try Lieut. Granville Cubage on charges of cruelty to prisoners; 2) in a less pretentious setting, to try Lieut. Leonard W. Ennis on similar charges. Two other chambers were carefully swept and dusted each day in case the top command decided to run a four-ring circus. Twelve more defendants were awaiting trial...
Kleberg, Assault bolted through on the inside to take command. In the excitement of riding his first Derby, Mehrtens forgot to stop whipping. Assault flashed under the wire all by himself, an eight-length winner of the richest Derby ever (first-place money...
Franz Josef's Command. Jeritza, a Moravian, was born Mitzi Jedlicka, a name she glamorized after she became a Viennese prima donna. Emperor Franz Josef, who heard her at the Vienna Volksoper, commanded her to the Vienna Court Opera and gave her the Austrian Order of Knighthood, first class.* For ten years she was the operatic toast of Europe's gayest capital. Her tall (5 ft. 7 in.) figure was as trim as a dressmaker's model, and as muscular as a middleweight champion. For her combined vocal and physical prowess Puccini named her his "greatest Tosca...
Under the command of 19 veterans who qualified for advanced military science training, 60 odd elementary military science students went through inspection paces on Monday and Tuesday for four top-ranking officers of the First Service Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina...