Word: commandeer
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...targets had been drawn up, with an emphasis, as Groves later wrote, on "places the bombing of which would most adversely affect the will of the Japanese people to continue the war." A special Air Force unit--the 509th Composite Group--had been formed in September 1944, under the command of Lieut. Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, regarded by many to be the service's best bomber pilot. Tibbets' group would be responsible for dropping the then untested atomic devices, although few of its 225 officers and 1,542 enlisted men were told the exact nature of their assignment...
...WANT TO PREJUDGE POWELL AS a presidential candidate, but we should learn from our past experience. The U.S. suffered under Ulysses S. Grant, and stood still for eight years under Dwight Eisenhower. Military duty in command positions is not the appropriate training for political office. Politics is the art of building consensus among diverse special interests rather than the art of commanding others. The presidency should be the culmination of a career in civilian government service rather than a prize for a beloved military hero. THEODORE M. UTCHEN Wheaton, Illinois...
...when two wireless-radio buffs turned out equipment for other amateurs. In the 1940s, Zenith went into making TV sets in a big way, and in 1956 it introduced the parents -- or grandparents -- of today's couch potatoes to the idea of remote control with its Space Command device...
Wylie hoped the book would draw attention to the need to broaden conceptions of language learning, according to a 1977 New York Times Book Review article, Many Americans with asuperb command of verbal French "simply do notunderstand the nonverbal messages that reflect agreat deal of the culture of a people," he said...
...pleased that critic Richard Corliss noted the attention to detail by the makers of Apollo 13 [CINEMA, July 3], but there were some errors in the review. The names given to the command and lunar modules of Apollo 13, Odyssey and Aquarius, were not, as the article implied, derived from the entertainment-industry products 2001: A Space Odyssey and Hair. Astronaut Jim Lovell's book clearly states the derivation of the names: Odyssey because Lovell "plain liked the ring of the word," and Aquarius from Egyptian mythology. Otherwise, the review was well written, and should bring throngs to movie theaters...