Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Defense Lawyer Stryker may command big fees, but his reputation was not enhanced by all of the blarney which the majority of the jury so easily sensed. Federal Prosecutor Tom Murphy, who draws a small salary for hard work well done, had it over Stryker "like a tent." His summation was a gem of logical courtroom oratory. By the way ... if Tom had needed help in his argument, he could have called on his brother (none other than "Fireman" Murphy, ex-Yankee pitcher) to quench Stryker's pyrotechnic palaver...
Uniforce looks exactly like a command headquarters, although it has no troops to command. Most of the concrete progress at Fontainebleau has been on the technical level. Map work and photographic interpretation have been standardized, as well as some technical equipment, such as naval couplings, which will permit ships of all Western Union navies to refuel one another at sea. The metric linear measure system has been accepted by Western Union artillery, but centigrade has not yet triumphed over Fahrenheit. Basic manuals for all Western Union forces will be published. The five sovereign nations have not, however, exchanged their secret...
...Infantry Division were posted at Rethel, near Reims, when the Nazis struck in May 1940. His was one of the handful of French units that showed up well amid general disaster; he hurled the Germans back six times before the crumbling line on his left flank forced the French command to order his retreat. He retreated fighting. Yet he found time to analyze the causes of the French defeat and to apply the lessons in practice. By picking up stray trucks and equipment wherever he could, he managed to reorganize his units into some semblance of a motorized division with...
...most Westpointed U.S. officers commanding the temperamental De Lattre, he was hard to stomach. He had a supreme disregard for carefully planned strategy. (Says he: "The battle of the Marne was not won by a committee or a plan.") At one point during the fighting, the U.S. command ordered him to fall back to a new line, evacuate Strasbourg; he flatly refused. Another time, he attacked Ulm against instructions because Napoleon had captured...
Once, during the battle of the Colmar pocket, De Lattre's superior, U.S. General Jacob Devers, put the XXI U.S. Army Corps under his command (other U.S. officers were outraged by this move). Throughout the fighting, Devers kept up a stream of suggestions to De Lattre via field telephone. Finally De Lattre exploded: "If you want me to run this battle, leave me alone. If you want to run it, come here and take over." Devers, who respects De Lattre as a first-rate soldier, smiled: "I was wondering how soon he would say that...