Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo announced a shake-up in its Navy, bringing Vice Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa into the top operational command...
Flanking the Plain, under the shade of the great elms, stood excited parents and friends. Among them, more subdued but more deeply moved, stood an older part of the Long Grey Line of West Point graduates. At a booming command, some 4,800 white-gloved hands snapped 2,400 rifles to "present arms." Front & center, to the strains of Alma Mater, marched the 853 members of the class of 1945, the largest in West Point history. Then the Corps, company by company, wheeled and passed in review, rank on rigid rank saluting with eyes right, and being saluted in turn...
...ones, in peacetime the Army influence has always been suspect. Yet the sight of West Point on parade is always heart-quickening.. One good and typical reason could be found in the young stalwart who led the parade this week. Chosen by the Tactical Officers last June to command the Corps of Cadets during his final year, First Cadet Captain Robert Evans ("Woody") Woods was not necessarily the brainiest (he was 605th at graduation), the most personable, nor the most popular member of his class. He was chosen because he best combined the qualities that West Point stands...
...marry this week, the day after graduation. On Sundays he attended Episcopal services in the Academy's beautiful Gothic chapel. (Separate services are held for Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists.) Two years of this grueling testing and training marked him as a man who was able to command, willing to obey, eager to serve, quick to learn, honest, strong, able - in sum, a good soldier. For these reasons he was chosen First Captain...
...Bekins "vanliners" (large enough to carry 14 rooms of unpacked furniture cross-country) and "portal vans" (detachable from trucks for hoisting aboard ocean liners). When the Government evicted the West Coast Japanese in 1942, Bekins moved more than 60% of them to relocation centers. When the Ninth Service Command moved lock & stock from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, Bekins handled most of the job. Last week, in Los Angeles County alone, the company moved more than 1,000 families...