Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperate, hunted life almost from her completion in 1941. Much of the time she hid in harbors licking the wounds from persistent British air attacks. This week off Tromso harbor in northern Norway her barren career ended. Said the British Air Ministry: "Twentynine Lancasters of the R.A.F. Bomber Command . . . attacked the German battleship Tirpitz with 12,0001b. bombs. There were several direct hits and within a few minutes the ship capsized and sank. One of our aircraft is missing...
General Douglas MacArthur prefers to watch, not duck, when enemy planes attack. It was so at Corregidor; it was so last week at Leyte. A .50-caliber bullet from a Jap strafing plane pierced the wall of his command post building, passed within a foot of his head...
Instead of sending supplies, Washington proposed that General Stilwell be given command of all Chinese forces. The White House believed that the Nationalist Government could do a lot more in the fight against Japan by pressing domestic reforms and by coming to terms with the Chinese Communist Government at Yenan...
With most of the Washington suggestions, the Generalissimo, however, reluctantly, agreed. He had already accepted the proposal that General Stilwell be given tactical command of China's armies. Then, seemingly in the discussion over the exact scope of Stilwell's command, he was pushed too far. Perhaps, as some reports maintained, Washington at last insisted on bringing the Chinese Communist armies into the new setup. Allegedly, the Chinese Communists, who have adamantly held out against Chiang's control, were willing to serve under an American general and thereby acquire American arms...
...look at the patriotic poster spread across the wall of a railroad terminus. "What You Are Fighting For!" boomed the slogan under a sea of proud, anxious American faces. The Negroes "gave the eye-catching picture a swift glance and then snapped their heads away, almost as if by command." Every face on the poster was white...