Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slow, More Surely. In large part it would reflect the careful personality of Tom Dewey himself. It was just that thought which had caused the real opposition to his nomination. Though nearly all Republicans respected him for his administrative skill, and admired him for his ability to command the loyalty of top-notch aides, a variety of Republicans felt he was not the kind of man they could cotton to. Old Guardists could love John Bricker, young folks could idealize Harold Stassen. others could be devoted to Statesman Vandenberg. Dewey, it was variously said, was too mechanically precise...
...years Sinarquistas had been a power in the Mexican countryside. They met, under their own Nazi-style red-white-green party flags, at the command of secret leaders. Around Mexico City they could rally 30,000 illiterate "soldiers" at a few hours's notice. There would be a big parade, then speakers would mount a platform in the plaza and call for cheers - cheers for Christ the King, cheers for the Virgin of Guadalupe. When the speaker shouted: "Who robs Mexico of its oil?" the crowd would answer: "The U.S." "Who takes the products of Mexico's mines...
...sailors for the first time . . . paddled their collapsible little boats out to me with the butts of their rifles, and many shouted that they were sinking, we could not help them . . . 'Stop shouting and save your breath, and bail out with your steel helmets,' was the only command suitable for the occasion." At last Shamrock was put out of action, and her load shifted to another ship. Skipper Barrell reported: "This was the last straw, having to leave my vessel which constituted my life savings ... I sat down beneath a gun with my hands over my face...
...Grand Tour was under way again-that great annual pilgrimage which almost since the Revolution has led Americans back to Europe at the command of fashion, war or undefined nostalgia. Well over 200,000 Americans were expected to go to Europe this summer, nearly on a par with the best prewar years, and as many as the reduced Atlantic fleet could carry. Ships of all sizes and registries were booked to capacity, and on the vastly expanded airlines space was going fast. Europe feverishly offered up its beauties in exchange for dollars, announced special rations to keep well-fed Americans...
Marriage Revealed. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 48, polar-exploring airman (he flew Admiral Byrd through Antarctica in 1929), wartime command pilot on Scandinavian missions for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces; and Bess Engelbrechtsen, 26, Oslo journalist who helped publish an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation; he for the second time, she for the first; on Feb. 26; in Oslo...