Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk outside, German Haus-frauen listened in bewilderment to the discordant doughboy opera. The irreverent G.I.s, having captured the opera house and set up a command post there, had found the property room intact. Tired as they were, the temptation to dress up and put on a show was too much for them. The performance lasted two hours...
...Army & Navy's new five-star rank has raised the command ceiling so high that there is more room than ever before in the four-star chamber just below it. Last week the President nominated nine more men to join four-star generals Malin Craig and Joseph Stilwell. The nine...
...Italy the brisk action of recent weeks simmered down. The high command told the story of one 24-hour period in 15 words: "Fifth and Eighth Army patrols continued to probe enemy positions and several sharp clashes resulted." And in these little actions death came to a few young...
...Empsey Dempsey Empsey" (M.C. Dempsey, M.C.). Like many another aloof and quiet man, Dempsey has perversely acquired nicknames. Samples: "Bimbo" and "Lucky." In 1940 Dempsey went to France with the 13th Infantry Brigade and took it out again over the Dunkirk beaches. In England he rose rapidly through command and staff posts, learning about tank warfare and amphibious operations. He got into the last stages of the Africa campaign commanding the XIII Corps (he considers 13 his lucky number), took it into Sicily and Italy, fought several highly successful and highly unpublicized actions on the Biferno and Sangro Rivers. Then...
...free elections. (Chiang wished to postpone elections until peacetime.) Chiang's profession of faith in democracy was "gangster talk." His suggestion that the Communist army (whose control is the pivotal issue between Chungking and Yenan) be turned over to a U.S. general under Chiang's supreme command was "lunatic" talk. His "dictatorship" must be ended. But in a "coalition" government, the Generalissimo "may still be allowed to occupy a seat . . . correct his former mistakes and atone for his crimes...