Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months later Walker was sent back to the U.S. in a training command. The 36th, with replacements, fought on, landed in southern France, fought its way into Germany. But old 36th Division men still hate no man in the world as much as they hate lanky, stubborn Mark Clark...
Rare in Soviet Russia is a living ex-chief of the political police. Last week Russia had one-tough, professorial Marshal Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, 46. He stepped out as head of the N.K.V.D,, but was apparently still in Stalin's high command...
Mass meetings booed the top command, collected funds to buy space for protests in U.S. papers. They promised: "We are marking the names of Congressmen who are interested in our welfare...
...high command, harried by the uproar from civilian and soldier, had never told them exactly what the score was on the time they must serve. The demobilization machinery had sometimes operated in strange ways that no one could adequately explain...
...white flag. While Secretary Forrestal smiled approval, 60-year-old Admiral Nimitz formally presented the new cast of characters now taking over from 67-year-old Admiral King's war-weary team. As things go in the Navy, the accent was decidedly on youth: the new high command averaged five and a half years younger...