Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid caused shrieks of rage in the Italian press. Communist papers featured a Tass dispatch calling Giuliano the tool of imperialistic foreign elements who wished to make the island a base for military operations. Minister of Interior Mario Scelba flew to Palermo and cleaned out the whole Montelepre police command. Himself a Sicilian, Scelba began a wholesale transfer from Montelepre of native Sicilians...
While her husband's status was still indefinite, Ruth maintained a dignified silence. Explained one elder tribal statesman who had paid a call: "The queen will not speak to us yet. We are waiting for her command. But word has come to us that she is delighted with her new country...
...thousand international "partisans of peace" descended on Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Trade Unions) last week. Before a red plush backdrop bearing giant portraits of Lenin and Stalin, they acted out a Kremlin command performance of a familiar comedy...
This week, the Communist high command threw its reserves into the campaign, called out the metalworkers...
...approach...is a firm and disciplined one. He takes no nonsense from a piano. He sits erect before the instrument and in full command of it. His wrists are rigid and his bony fingers strong and sure...Not only does he play such numbers [as the Paderewski Minuet in G] completely and correctly, seldom if ever missing or muffing a note, but he evidences keen insight into the composer's intent by subtle shadings of interpretation...[When] he tackled a bit of Chopin...I was downright floored. I knew he played well-but not that well...