Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been having for the past few weeks is that Admiral Halsey has to report to General MacArthur for orders, and that General MacArthur is ranking officer over Admiral Halsey. We would like very much for you to straighten us out on that argument. We do know that one has command of the South Pacific and the other has the Southwest Pacific...
Oldtimers heard the news with barely a blink. The War Department announced last week that a woman had been appointed for the first time as an instructor in the high and mighty Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas...
...Several months later, Colonel Robertson arrived to take command of the base. A West Pointer, he had been wounded in World War I, retired, recalled for duty for World War II. An elegant disciplinarian, he liked to play polo with cinema people and rich orange growers...
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the flashy plug-ugly who became one of the war's great soldiers, is Inspector General of Western Defenses. At 52 Rommel still enjoys a home reputation little tarnished by the thrashing he finally took in Africa. His command, the mobile task force, is the ideal instrument for his attributes of daring and ingenuity, if he still has them...
...other views about his experience. "We [soldiers]," he said, "have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive it to its fullest .capacity ... to examine . . . the laws of social...