Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obedience to the gracious command of His Majesty the Emperor...
Radio Tokyo broadcast a high-command communiquí announcing renewed offensives on all fronts, then withdrew it. The Emperor called in Foreign Minister Togo. A Tokyo radio operator, chatting with a station in Switzerland, said that an important message was expected but still unfiled. The Japanese press played up two possible successors to Hirohito: his eleven-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, and his 40-year-old brother, Prince Takamatsu. Radio Tokyo referred vaguely but constantly to the comings & goings of the Emperor's elder statesmen...
Somehow, even during the darkest days of their war against the Nazis, the Reds had managed to keep their Far Eastern forces almost a million strong. Last week, under the overall command of bulky, brilliant Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky, they poured across the border. The Reds had plenty of tactical aircraft in support; they had plenty of guns, plenty of motorized equipment, plenty of battle-tried officers...
...What we should do at this critical moment is to wait for the great command from the throne. All wishful thinking must now be completely eliminated, nor is it of any use now to recount bygone events...
...complete command all the way, Jack Wallace tied down his fourth win of the summer season Saturday as the Varsity nine edged out the PT Night Raiders from Melville by a score...