Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruisers that fateful night have been rightfully indignant at being referred to by the press as the "sitting duck cruisers" (we were steaming at 12 knots as specified by naval defense plans), but the crux of all insults was the inference in your article that the men in command of the individual ships were not of the caliber to hold such responsibilities. ... If there was ever an unreasonable martinet, a Captain Bligh of the U.S. Navy-Captain Bode was it, but when it came to naval warfare, logical thinking, cool judgment and action, he was all the Navy...
Tired looking and jaunty as ever, he read in a slow, clear voice which even Germans with an imperfect command of his tongue could understand. Despite the language of diplomacy, Russians would also understand...
...reporters knew that the General had more on his mind than fishing. As chief of the Canadian Army's Western Command, embracing British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories, he has stated bluntly that he considers the area "vulnerable." Among its military assets: the deteriorating Canol pipeline, 120 bridges on the highway between Dawson Creek and Whitehorse, a lot of abandoned Army camps, at least four big airports, a latticework of communications. Liabilities: long winter nights, frozen lakes and ground inviting airborne invasion. Perhaps a quick run over the area might uncover some fresh viewpoints on defense...
...known Communists. Offstage, among the tough Indian miners, there are powerful leftist forces. Now they may go over to scholarly José Antonio Arze who is marshaling his P.I.R. (Leftist Revolutionary Party) for position. But he is torn between desire for power and fear that, once in command, his Socialist program might fail. Marxist Arze, who says he is no Communist, well knows that Bolivian Socialists can never nationalize and operate the tin mines so long as all the smelters are abroad...
White-haired, dignified Lieut. General Barton Kyll Yount (rhymes with bunt) was in effect president of the nation's largest technical school in World War II. As chief of the Army Air Forces Training Command, he bossed the training of two million flyers and technicians on 453 campuses. In June, at 62, after 43 years in the Army, Barton Yount retired...