Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well have stemmed from subconscious envy of Buckner's first-rate vocabulary, which shines with added luster against the background of a traditionally inarticulate profession. His standing with the Army's top leaders is attested by the fact that they have entrusted an army to his command at this stage of the war, when there is no lack of good generals with recent battle experience. As for the final test of combat-Buckner and his army will write that answer...
Although a man of action, who would rather sail a kayak or tame an outlaw horse than see a movie, the general who came to Okinawa was not a restless man. He could sit calmly in a leather chair aboard his command ship, listening to the reports coming in, and occasionally giving an order. If he had his way, man would stay awake 24 hours a day. But since man cannot, he has learned the trick of sleeping for five or ten minutes, then coming suddenly wide awake...
...Chinese High Command had warm words of praise last week for Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. It had helped slow the Japanese thrust into Shensi. But the General was in no mood to praise or be praised. He called in American and Chinese newspapermen to hear harsh news: thieves and gangsters in "both organized and unorganized bands" were hampering the operations of his air force...
...generation of Jap empire-builders. He was an up-&-coming naval officer during Japan's war against China's decadent Manchu Empire (1894-5) and against Russia's hapless Tsarist Navy (1904-5). Before his retirement in 1927, he rose to the Navy's supreme command. Then he joined the inner circle of the Court. As Grand Chamberlain he walked a few respectful paces behind Hirohito at public functions (see cut), helped name the Emperor's first born son. Most important, he served as the door through which the warlords had access to the throne...
Fontenoy, Waterloo and Dunkirk. The Coldstream Guards were organized by Oliver Cromwell's famed henchman, Colonel Monck, who taught them "to keep a line, stay unbroken, hold [fire] until the word of command." Nearly a century later, at the Battle of Fontenoy, Coldstream muskets wiped out the entire front line of the French Guards in a single volley. The Guards served with distinction at Waterloo, in the Crimea and in the Boer War. In Nieppe Forest in 1918, a handful of Coldstreamers were ordered to stand up to the great German advance at all costs, and were wiped...