Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spotty passing helped Adams command the floor long enough to outshoot Leverett's Bunnies by 37 to 24. Nanoff of Adams and Seagar of Leverett each hooked in nine points. After momentarily tying the Gold Coasters at mid-game, the Bunnies faded in the final half...
This decision, made last March, was not the first of its kind for Hank Myers, who would fly the President to Key West for a brief vacation this week. As a command pilot, Lieut. Colonel Henry Tift Myers, holder of a "Green Ticket"* in the Air Transport Command, has the authority to clear his plane to any destination under any flight plan he elects. As personal pilot for the President, Hank Myers' decisions are not always easy...
...Hope was back from a royal command performance in London with the classiest imaginable keepsake for his actor's-scrapbook: a nice picture of Hope hobnobbing with fascinated royal chums around a book of Hollywood autographs, including Hope...
Rebecca also possessed two other provocative talents-an ability to put her mental finger on the key detail of a complicated situation or character, and a sharp tongue. She is still in brisk command of both assets. In Manhattan last summer, she was introduced to arch John Erskine, author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy, The Human Life of Jesus and some 40 other books. Said Erskine: "I've been reading your clever articles and I wonder if they're sincere." Snapped Miss West: "I've been reading yours, and I never wonder about either...
...devoted husband, Henry Maxwell Andrews, an investment banker with a cool, scholarly, finely whetted mind, she lives at Ibstone House, in the county of Buckinghamshire, 36 miles from London. There she prefers to be known as Mrs. Andrews. Ibstone is an 18th Century manor house whose back windows command one of the noblest vistas in southern England-broad fields falling away to a deep valley in the Chiltern Hills. Around the house lies the 85-acre farm, where the Andrewses raise fruit, vegetables, flowers, hogs, and pasture their purebred Jersey herd. Near the house is an immaculate modern dairy equipped...