Word: commandeer
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...cancelled and a two-minute silence will be observed. Westminster Abbey's program combines "traditional and modern elements" ? that means Elton as well as Elgar. Even the Palace has been infected by the need to accomodate an overwhelming grief: the Lord Chamberlain's office is manning a media-friendly "Command Center", connected to over 20 million phone lines...
Nonetheless, Soros has said 1944 was the happiest year of his life: "I had a father whom I adored, who was in command of the situation, who knew what to do and who helped others. We were in mortal danger, but I was convinced I was exempt. I learned the art of survival from a grand master. That has had a certain relevance to my investment career...
...offensive put 31,000 NATO peacekeepers clearly in direct opposition to Serb wartime leaders still in command of thousands of police officers as well as the Serbian economy. It split the Bosnian Serb sector into two regions: one controlled by Karadzic and the other by his official successor, President Biljana Plavsic...
...nine weeks of Navy basic training begin on a luxury bus that takes recruits from O'Hare airport to the Navy's lone boot camp, Great Lakes Recruit Training Command, just north of Chicago. Onboard they watch an 18-min. orientation video with a rock-music soundtrack in which recent boot-camp grads tell the new arrivals that "physically, anybody can get through boot camp," and that it's O.K. to cry. Recruits get a "Blue Card," which helps them deal with stress. The card instructs a recruit to hand it over to a Navy trainer...
...mingled with closeted military men at San Diego's naval base, he knew how to deal drugs: give a client a first batch free and make them feel welcome to more, at a price. Cunanan had an astonishing range of knowledge: of the way the U.S. military command is structured--and of the hierarchy of chimpanzees. Zeeland recalls that Cunanan would jokingly refer to his friend Trail, in the lingo of chimp studies, as an "alpha male," adding that subordinate chimps paid homage to alpha males by displaying their genitals. He would then proceed to do so, remaining fully clothed...