Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite patience and many words to advance a foot...
Brigadier General Elliot D. Cooke, visiting a forward command post in North Africa, eyed the colonel thoughtfully. As he was to discover before he finished his Army-wide inquiry, the colonel had pretty well summed up the attitude of many U.S. combat officers in World...
...head of the Army's Air Transport Command, Lieut. General Harold Lee George organized and ran an airline which was bigger (3,700 planes) than all the rest of the world's airlines combined. Last week he took a new job: board chairman and president of Peruvian International Airways, which has only five surplus planes, has not yet started operating...
After a three year tour of duty in the Pacific, Captain Bonney assumed command of the local unit last July. He served as commanding officer of a submarine squadron for 18 months, and as deputy commander of Service Squadron 10, and he had a hand in directing the outfit known as "Nimitz' secret weapon...
...means of spotters directing the defense from second story stations throughout the University Hall area, and the unbending line of the reserves under the command of Sergeant John Twomy, the Yale charge was quickly converted into "a pleasant song feast" according to Randall's laconic summation...