Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge U.S. Army-built air base near Churchill, on the western shore of Hudson Bay, a whistle shrilled through the ice-cold, early morning air. Before eleven weird, tanklike "snowmobiles," a group of men snapped to attention. They listened as Brigadier R. O. G. Morton, Canadian Army commander of the military district, told them: "The ground you will cover is historic. Brave men have given their lives there for the advancement of the race." He finished with a command: "To post!" The Canadian Army's "Operation Musk-Ox" was under...
...command performance honoring Admiral d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who with a single word had brought joy to Cambodia. Resplendent in purple wrap-around sam-pots, beribboned white tunics and black silk stockings, the bun-haired mandarins of Cambodia's court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return...
Bubbling with happiness, Norwegian Labor's Lie joined Belgian Labor's Spaak and Australian Labor's Makin in UNO's high command. Lie called a press conference, waved his arms at the reporters, bellowed: UNO will be bigger, stronger, sounder than the League of Nations ever...
...best wartime program in radio was not heard by U.S. civilians. Called Command Performance (TIME, March 8,1943), it brought together each week the big names in show business. When servicemen overseas requested a sigh from Carole Landis or an ad-lib quarrel between Jack Benny and Fred Allen, they got it. Such high-priced talent, donated as a war service, could not possibly be financed by commercial radio. But last week an economy-size version called Request Performance was well on its way to stardom...
Pratt's bitter conclusion: "The official censors have pretty well succeeded in putting over the legend that the war was won without a single mistake, by a command consisting exclusively of geniuses, who now have asked to be rewarded by being placed in control of all scientific thought and utterance...