Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General Alden H. Waitt, 56, whose 31-year Army career had led to command of the Chemical Corps. Gray said Waitt was suspended on suspicion that he "improperly furnished personnel data" to a civilian...
...traps and sprung them with a master's touch (e.g., following three left jabs with a left hook instead of an orthodox right). By the 10th round, ringsiders had the feeling that they were watching a precision machine. In the 14th round, Sugar Ray was in such confident command that he stuck out his tongue at Joe Louis, who had picked Gavilan...
British sailors in their stiff white duck hats, Frenchmen in their flat caps with red pom-poms and Dutchmen in their black streamered hats all but drank the local pubs dry. Field Marshal Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, held a reception on board H.M.S. Implacable. The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard gave a cocktail party aboard the Tromp, which was named after one of the few admirals of any nation who soundly beat the British on the seas...
...Constitution follows the flag. It is no defense for him to say he acts for the Allied powers." To cope with the dilemma, Douglas evolved a novel formula: the Japanese now serving war-crimes sentences should bring suit in lower U.S. courts against their American jailers (and those who command the jailers) to determine whether they have been imprisoned illegally. ' Naturally, the proposal was of no help to the seven Japanese executed for their war crimes. Two of them were among those who laid the issue before the court...
Despite its size, the Du Pont chain of command which Tom Clark wanted to dismember was simple. The Du Pont family controls the Christiana Securities Co. (TIME, Feb. 21), a holding company in which anyone can buy stock (current bid price: $3,050 a share). Christiana Securities Co., plus other holdings of the Du Pont family, control E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. In turn, Du Pont controls General Motors Corp. through its 10 million shares of G.M. stock. Du Pont and G.M. together own Kinetic Chemicals, Inc., a maker of refrigerants; G.M. and Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) own Ethyl...