Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Midnight struck for Fordham's Cinderellas toward the end of the second quarter, when Army's cool, detached Quarterback Arnold Galiffa began heaving touchdown passes-three of them in less than four minutes. In the calmer second half (only four major penalties) Army kept its command. Final score: Army 35, Fordham 0. Despite the score, the Rams had shown enough power to impress the experts; it looked as though Fordham would soon have an outstanding football team if it didn't have one already...
Yamashita was blamed for rape and murder committed in Manila by Japanese naval forces who were trapped and later wiped out by the Americans. It turned out that these forces were not under Yamashita's effective command. He was far away in the hills, and had lost touch with the units responsible for most of the outrages. Yamashita, in fact, reached the Philippines for the first time two days after the U.S. troops had landed at Leyte, and never did succeed in establishing contact with many of his units...
...know that institution." Warned Murphy: "[Yamashita's trial] is unworthy of the traditions of our people . . . The high feelings of the moment doubtless will be satisfied. But in the sober afterglow will come the realization of the boundless and dangerous implications . . . No one in a position of command in an army, from sergeant to general, can escape those implications...
Three years after Yamashita was hanged, Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda stood a six months' international trial in Tokyo on charges similar to the Yamashita case. He was acquitted when it was shown that he had no knowledge of the crimes, although he was in technical command of the men who committed them...
Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...