Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...NROTC instructor at Yale University from 1936 to 1938, at which time he was transferred to the submarine base at New London in the capacity of executive officer. In January, 1943, he was placed in charge of Submarine Squadron 14 an remained at that post until given command of a Pacific-bound assault transport in September...
Within the grey walls of the Palace, where men tried to make peace in times of desperate scarcity, the warlike laws of strength and numbers were in command...
...Delaware horse-owner, who had switched horses' names and made a mint by racing a good horse as a long-shot unknown. William F. Mink, the owner, picked up an unimpressive five-year-old gelding named All-pulch for $210. Next, at Pimlico last fall, he claimed Sea Command, son of War Admiral...
Then, said Drayton, identification papers were switched. Results: for the past eight months Sea Command has been running as Allpulch-usually a long shot, but five times a winner. The real Allpulch has disappeared. At one race in New Hampshire-supposedly Allpulch's "maiden" race-one man cleaned up $30,000 betting on the horse (at 13-to-1 odds) that only insiders knew was really Sea Command...
Application blanks for terminal leave may due to veterans under a recently-passed bill in Congress will be available at post offices throughout Boston within a week, a spokesman for the headquarters of the Army's First Service Command said yesterday...