Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Adolf Hitler's High Command...
...Endorsed the proposal for a single department of national defense, a unified command, and a separate air force...
...large retinue of servants; make women do housework; "I am sure that no leader will hesitate to clean his own lavatory." Now he questioned each minister closely about the workings of his department, and made practical suggestions to which his spiritual authority gave the weight of a military command. One minister reported that the Mahatma "is keen for industrial progress...
...Jeans had stuck to his astronomical knitting, only scientists would ever have heard of him. But he was that great rarity, a first-rate scientist with a command of lucid English. Starting in the late 1920s, he wrote a series of best-selling books* which brought the new discoveries of science, unblemished by errors or indignity, down to the popular level...
...Last Supper Jesus' words "one of you shall betray me" are not a prophecy but a command-and interpreted as such by Judas, the only one of the apostles who understands the choice Jesus has made. Jesus, knowing that Judas understands, gives him the sop to confirm...