Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working press has never known quite where it stood with General Douglas MacArthur. Zealous public relations officers, by fending off reporters in his Far East Command, have kept the press from finding out. At his rare press conferences, MacArthur has talked freely; between times, his public relations officers have acted on the theory that no news but good news should be written about MacArthur...
...shift in "policy." First sign of a change came when the London Daily Herald's Hugh Hessell Tiltman, who had criticized some Occupation policies, applied for round-trip orders to Malaya and the East Indies. He was told that, if he left the area of the Far East Command, he would lose his credentials and his family its quarters. He left anyway. Hitherto, correspondents had been allowed to leave the theater on reportorial assignments and re-enter without trouble...
...most striking characteristic of Othello' is its structure. Whereas in most tragedies, the hero maintains control until the turning point in the play is reached, here we have the villain in command until the climax. It is proportionately hard to understand". Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 emphasized, this point in the second lecture of his series on the "Five tragedies of Shakspere" last night in Sanders Theatre...
...outside news from the United Press; to expand our critical departments; and so forth. I shall not attempt to say whether our program would in fact have made the CRIMSON of that time a better paper. But we were wholly sincere in our efforts and we did, I believe, command the support of most of those editors on the news, editorial and photographic boards who took an active part in the daily production of the paper...
Used during World War II as an Air Transport Command base, Mellaha is strategically located for the diplomatic war in the Mediterranean. It is a ramp from which A.T.C. planes, carrying a steadily increasing military traffic, can take off to southern Europe and the Middle East. From desolate Mellaha's three strips, it is 775 miles to Athens, goo miles to the Dardanelles, 1,300 miles to Palestine...