Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make secure the foothold which it has regained. The small sector of the student body which has succumbed to the lure of the harpies can befoul the whole College, and the time for opposing action is now. The University should use every moral and legal pressure at its command to eradicate this disease before its contamination can spread...
...additional pictures at $45,000, $55,000 and $65,000 respectively. One of these, The Yearling, has been made. At the time Peck made it he was worth at least $150,000 a picture (standard fee for topflight stars). Today, if he chose to operate that way, he might command and get $200,000 or more. But he will make two more pictures for M-G-M-at $55,000 and $65,000. His sensible attitude: "Every good picture lengthens your screen life...
Ulysses S. Grant, a good general and a poor President, credited his sons with virtues they never had. He reportedly thought that Ulysses Jr. had a "marvelous business capacity; that Colonel Frederick Grant was fit to command armies; that Jesse was a mathematical genius." The less indulgent New York World insisted that "the Grant sons, but for the accident of their father's presidency, might have been respectable drygoods clerks in Galena...
From the opening face-off, Yardling skaters were in command against, St. Mark's in Saturday's hockey tilt at southboro, scoring within the initial 20 seconds and winning by an 8 to 3 count...
Smoke bombs were dropped by one of the trio described as "a lean thin fellow," while another "pock-marked chap" took command of the cashiers' cage...