Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form in March, 1934. No less than 22 Democrats stormed across party lines to hand FDR his first major defeat. As an amendment to the Rivers and Harbors Bill in 1944, the Seaway was an easier victim, and last month's de facto rejection showed the opposition in comfortable command with a 27 vote majority...
Fawzi Bey had yet to prove that he could capably command a force of many thousands. So far his battles had ended in defeats: by the French in Syria, by the British in Palestine, and in Iraq (where he fought with Nazi help) during World War II. A British plane strafed, and almost killed him, in Iraq. He went to Germany to recuperate. There he helped stir up the Arab world against the British, married a German girl (his third wife), was held by the conquering Russians until February...
...Saladin. Whatever the doubts of his military ability, there was no doubt about the magic of his name among Arabs. So far, because of that magic, he has been largely a front in the Arab recruiting drive. The top command in the Arab war on Zionism has passed from Fawzi Bey to others. Above Fawzi Bey in the military hierarchy are two Iraqis: slight, hawk-nosed Taha Pasha Hashimi, commander in chief, and swarthy, glowering Safwat Pasha, overall field commander...
...Command Decision. Hard-hitting war play (TIME...
...Their only object is to cause disruption in order to stay in the good graces of the Arab High Command, which includes the ex-Mufti and other Nazi war-criminals," he concluded...