Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard actually had a 2 to 0 lead in the first period before Northeastern scored four straight goals to take command of the game. After seven minutes of spiritless play, the Crimson opened the scoring when Myles Huntington skated down the left side and scored on a pipe shot...
...University of Otago in 1904 and went back to his mother's people as a government health officer. In 1909, he was elected to Parliament and soon became a member of the cabinet. In World War I, he won the Distinguished Service Order as second in command of the Maori Battalion...
Screen Guild Players (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Command Decision, with Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson...
...little more than a great statistics bureau, and a sponsor of worthy projects. It publishes two dry-as-dust education journals, puts out bulletins on better teaching methods, worries about U.S. school enrollments. Though it handles funds for land-grant colleges, its function is more to counsel than command...
...Winkled Guns. When the hill is finally taken, and the battalion is reduced to less than a company, the brigadier in command says cheerily: "I've got a job for you . . . We want to get our armor on the move . . . but they're held up until we can get infantry to winkle the guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching...