Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, last week Bob Taft could view with satisfaction the job he had done. With Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg, he was in command of all the legislation likely to come out of the first six months of the 80th Senate. It would be Vandenberg on foreign affairs; Taft on domestic matters...
...COMMAND DECISION (258 pp.]-William Wister Haines - Little, Brown...
Three days later, he sounded even less convincing. On an inspection trip to the Pratt General Hospital at Coral Gables, he said that talk of his political future "is not good for the great organization I command...
Anti-British Revolution. Like most compromises, the resolution satisfied no one completely (it was passed 99-to-52-the narrowest victory the Congress High Command has won in the working committee). Least of all did it please Jai Prakash Narain, 44, head of the Congress Party Socialists, who favors an anti-British revolution, has called Jinnah a British stooge. Last week he told the students and faculty of the Hindu University of Benares: "In the coming fight, Congress will not have the same objects as in past struggles. Congress workers will not go to jail. Instead, they will have strength...
Ulen and his men were in command from the outset, and when Brown's intercollegiate ace Carl Paulson was nosed out by Jerry Gorman in the 220 freestyle, it was clear which way the tide would continue to flow. Paulson acquitted himself, however, in the closest event of the meet, as he touched the wall a stroke ahead of the Crimson's Chuck Hoelzer in the 200 yard breast-stroke...