Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrying a reefed mainsail. He dropped a kedge at the caucus room door, and rode up into the eye of a gentle breeze, and backed his mainsail. There he delivered a walking ladder of ranging shots, reloaded and waited for the enemy to reply. The shells of the unified command in Europe and the Pacific Ocean areas were laid into his rigging...
...have noted with great interest the hullabaloo caused by the proposed merger of the armed services. It seems to me that the obvious solution has been neglected. If the Army is serious (which we of course assume) in its desire for a unified command, the obvious solution is to have the Marine Corps absorb the Army...
Navy Secretary Forrestal has indicated that one way or another a compromise could be reached on unification of command. But on creation of an air department coequal with War and Navy-"I am not yet prepared to agree." Why not? Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz bluntly answered that question: the Navy "either gradually or at once [would] become a secondary service...
...economy-minded Congressmen within earshot, Ike Eisenhower made a "flash guess" that a military establishment under a single command could be maintained with 25% fewer men than under divided command. "With integration we can buy more security for less money." When he was through, eager listeners in the Senate caucus room scrambled for transcripts of his statement...
...nearer we approach through education to our avowed goal of equality of opportunity, . . . the more chance there is for personal liberty as we know it to continue in these United States . . . Education is perhaps the most important process in determining the future of our country," he continued, "it should command a far larger portion of our national income than it does today...