Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...execute the new policy, the Twelfth Fleet got a new boss: Richard Lansing Conolly, upped from vice admiral to admiral. Stocky, straight-shooting "Close-in" Conolly knew the shores of Tripoli and Italy from wartime command of amphibious forces. From 1946 administrative duty in Washington and current service at the Paris peace conference, he was fully rigged to sail as a seagoing diplomat...
Last week a procession of 21 cars, including Dwight Eisenhower's command car, followed Ida Eisenhower's grey casket through Abilene's quiet streets to the end of an elderly lady...
...year ago Dewavrin (nom de guerre: Colonel Passy) was one of the most powerful and honored figures in France, one of the closest confidants of its President Charles de Gaulle. He had capped a brilliant career as chief of the Gaullist Intelligence Service by dramatically parachuting into Brittany to command French resistance forces at the moment of Patton's breakthrough...
...ranks of Japan's organized labor received an unexpected reinforcement last week. A prostitutes' union formally announced its organization to the Supreme Command. The new union was made up of house girls, including many defrocked geishas, who had banded together to meet increasing competition from unhoused streetwalkers. Its formation highlighted the plight of womanless G.I.s, and of Japan's geishas, many of whom, as a result of the war and postwar conditions, have taken to prostitution...
...walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...