Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christians from . . . conversation and communication . . . with the Jews. [They] have made it clear that they would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes ... we have decided to command all of the aforesaid Jews, men and women, to leave our Kingdoms and never to return to them...
Haya had made his difficult decision just before New Year's. Summoning the few remaining members of his high command, he told them that he had dissolved the party's ruling committees, appointed a triumvirate to rule in his absence...
From his headquarters at Edmonton, the commanding officer of the North West Air Command looks out and up into a vast aerial kingdom. His domain stretches 2,000 miles from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific, and 2,000 miles from the 49th Parallel to the polar seas. Prairie flying schools trained 131,553 flyers for World War II. Through North West's staging fields pass B-29s, shuttling between the U.S. and Alaska (half of the Edmonton field is set aside for Americans...
...manages to break par despite a withered left arm, had been drilling over the course for a month. Jimmy ("Smiles") Demaret, the best wind-shot in the business, and slim Lloyd ("Mustache") Mangrum haunted the practice rounds along with some 120 others. Besides high-compression temperament and a steely command of the emotions, it had taken hard work to get to the top of the tournament business and it was taking hard work to keep them there. With most of them golf was a matter...
...activities of the EKU "stretch out far beyond the borders of the U.S.S.R. Here the main aim of the EKU is the disorganization of the world economy: inciting class war, aggravating industrial crises, organizing strikes." In short, the EKU's "Foreign Sector" is Russia's High Command for her war against the Marshall Plan...