Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last 30 years, Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Arthur Harris has progressed from attacking Iraqi and Indian tribes men in a bailing-wire kite to crumpling the huge Nazi war machine with his powerful, purring Bomber Command...
...paper, that was broad enough to take in all budgetary, purchasing and planning problems in peacetime. By formalizing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it would resolve all strategic and command arguments...
With only four snow-eating machines at its disposal, the high command of the Cambridge Street Department attempts to clear main thoroughfares and streets serving hospitals and churches once a snowfall has stopped. Thus, by the time the snow platoon reaches an unimportant lane off the beaten path--Holyoke Street, for example--the unpleasant melange of snow, slush, and mud has frozen over with two-foot sink holes and ridges at appropriate intervals. It is now too late. A regiment of men would be needed to chop out the ice by hand, and more scientific means prove futile. Salt removes...
...Casey" anxiously weighs the probable great losses against the potential great gains, then makes his command decision. Forty planes and 400 men are missing on the first raid. About the time he gets the bad news, along comes the Old Man himself, with a delegation of junketing Congressmen. The Old Man, famed Major General Kane, is so unnerved by circumstances that he almost forgets to put out his well-known jaw for photographers. A noisy Southern Congressman in yellow shoes, lavender shirt and white felt hat is highly indignant at the losses...
...Casey Dennis is made the goat, although he has done only what appeared to him to be his duty. Old A.A.F. hands may think they recognize certain incidents and characters in Command Decision, but Novelist William Wister Haines (Slim, High Tension) says in the customary solemn foreword that they are all dreamed up. An old A.A.F. hand him self, he was long enough (33 months) at Eighth Air Force and Strategic Air Forces headquarters to learn something of the woes of staff and command. His story is a little stagey here & there (the entrances & exits are particularly...