Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athletic director Bill Bingham, the man behind the drive for better basketball, scoured the country, and came up with William L. Barclay, assistant coach at the University of Michigan. Soft-spoken in manner, energetic, Iron-willed Barclay took effective command of the situation. Building around a nucleus of only two superior players, Barclay squeezed every possible ounce of talent out of his small squad and came up with a quintet that has been a credit to crimson colors, handing the championship Columbia five its only loss in Ivy League play, as well as downing Yale and complling...
Rooney announced that he would build a row of "cheap but durable" houses on the land. The Woodring porch would command a view of their back yards, and little else...
Lieut. John Wardle, commanding one of His Majesty's small (100-odd feet) motor minesweepers, was no Captain Bligh. Last week a Royal Court Martial sentenced Wardle to dismissal from his command and forfeiture of three months' seniority...
During the war (he was abruptly drafted in 1942 while beating the drum for a second front) Owen served as pressagent to his old friend Mountbatten. He edited the cheesecake-laden SEAC in Lord Louis' South East Asia Command, wore a Monty-style beret but never the insignia of his rank (lieutenant colonel). When he came home last summer, he no longer seemed so positive that Socialism had all the answers. His "Good Morning!" column in the Daily Mail didn't exactly hew to the Tory line, but it sometimes took a micrometer to measure the difference...
However numerically inconsequential the result, the 400-yard relay provided a bitter battle and a close finish, as Yale's Clement took command on the last lap over the Varsity's flagged Bullard...