Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people do not grumble when they are vexed by authority. They shout, and the Partisan Command listens. A peasant told the Partisan Command that he was sorry, but he could not give up his horse for transport until the plowing was done. Patiently the Partisan Command waited. Correspondent Pribichevich's landlady came home one day in a rage. She had been held for questioning because she had tried to salvage some wood from a bombed building...
...provided the final push to topple the tyrant from power. At the height of the civil revolution, 17-year-old Joseph Wright (son of a U.S. father, a Salvadorian mother) was talking with friends on a street of strike-bound San Salvador. In obedience to a police command, they dispersed. But one policeman fired, killed Joseph instantly...
...93rd learned fast. They were resourceful. Corporal Lemon Hicks of Silver City, Miss, and four buddies got lost behind enemy lines. When they blundered into a command post they picked off one Jap, melted back into the thick and steaming underbrush. They ran into a Jap minefield and methodically picked their way through it. They located their own lines by the sound of distant artillery, finally crossed safely back. Said Lemon: "All of us prayed...
...present job General Barney is stationed in Washington and functions as second in command of all U.S. Army Air Forces. General Benny is commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in the Middle East, where he succeeded Major General Ralph Royce...
Directly under him are two of Germany's younger generals: Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz to command the front-line defense of the Atlantic Wall; Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to lead the interior army of shock and maneuver which must be thrown wherever the main Allied effort develops...