Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cambridge quietly celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of its incorporation Sunday, postponing the fanfare until the week of July 4. Plans include a historical pageant to be held at Soldiers Field and the dedication of a plaque commemorating Washington's assumption of the Continental Army command and a monument honoring veterans of World...
...else. . . . But I don't intend to." A reporter suggested that the paper's chief value had been its staffers' freedom to write like newsmen, unshackled by the Article of War (No. 63) that forbids disrespect to superiors. Lee set him straight: "Any man in my command, sir, who wears the uniform is first of all a soldier." He thought the matter would settle itself, anyway, since the Army presently would be "a career Army rather than [a] democratic Army...
...Opus 22, an Andante Spinato and Grande Polonaise in E flat, a work hampered both by an episodic lack of coherence and by a certain shallow virtuosity, Horowitz's amazing command of keyboard technique, unfortunately combined with a lack of feeling and perception, becomes especially noticeable...
...Government high command tried to keep cool. The Foreign Office said that "no agreement of views" had been reached with Moscow about disposition of Manchurian industry. Meanwhile Chiang was having trouble with right-wing, anticoalition elements in the Kuomintang. Uncertainty in Manchuria had brought them into open opposition. The agreement for army unity might provoke them to a bitter last stand...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Trovers Harris (ret.), former head of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, arrived in Manhattan, with fetchingly beautiful Lady Harris and small daughter, to visit friends ("fast, furiously, and well"), get one more decoration in Washington, and then move on to retirement in South Africa. Frayed tweed topcoat, mangled green felt hat, shocking-pink mustache...