Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonel takes command of the right wing of the expedition, assigns the left wing to the major, and for the centre can find nothing better than 3 sgts...
...third omniscient remained in the bare, concrete barrack on Washington's Constitution Avenue where naval command is centred. To Navy men, Admiral William Daniel Leahy is the Navy. As Chief of Naval Operations, he is a one-man counterpart of the Army's General Staff, wielding a vast authority vested in his office by cumulative custom rather than by statute. To that grey and modest gentleman, who normally retires next June, the most important man in the U. S. Navy is Franklin Roosevelt. Because the President has made it so, an important area in the Navy...
Hoihow, Hainan's chief port, is potentially a good harbor, and a naval base there would command the Indo-China coast, some 200 miles to the west. It sits across the British Singapore-Hong Kong line and might menace the line from the Philippines to Singapore, should the U. S. and Britain ever act in concert in the East. It gives Japan a better jumping off place toward the oil-rich Netherlands Indies than it has ever had before. The Japanese Empire now stretches 2,400 miles from its farthest northern to its farthest southern outposts...
...Abul Kalam Azad, a Mohammedan. He promptly withdrew after being hooted out of a meeting. Nominee No. 2 was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gandhi's right-hand man. He also withdrew. Final choice was Dr. Patthabhi Sitaramayya of Madras, who received Saint Gandhi's and the Congress high command's endorsement, election seemed a sure thing...
...work at about 2 p. m. in an enormous, factory-like studio at 7 Rue des Grands-Augustins. He no longer selects or sizes (prepares with glue to make nonabsorbent) his own canvas but is fussy about its fineness and weave. His concentration, intensity, efficiency and command of his medium at work are legendary. But, while one painting may be finished in a day, another just like it will take 90 hours of work, spread over as much as three years. He is never satisfied; all his life the question "Ça marche?" has invariably met with the same reply...