Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, a Tokyo paper quoted a "high American authority" as saying that the U.S. might not attempt to hold Japan in case of war with Russia. Almost everyone knew that the "high authority" was the Secretary of the Army; no high authority in Douglas MacArthur's command could possibly have said such a thing. Asia was swept by rumors that the U.S. was about to quit Japan. All the way Down Under, an Australian newspaper cried in a mournful headline: "ALONE IN THE PACIFIC...
...lead changed hands twice before the visitors finally took command. Joe Kozol drew in the 121-pound class and Brown went ahead on Gray Michael's decision over Bob Abboud...
...soldiers adopted a slogan: "Down with capitalism and squash-eating!" Chiang Kaishek, by then China's dominant figure, sent his armies against the southern Soviet "republics" and all but finished them in a series of "extermination campaigns." Once, when Mao went to the front to assume personal command, he exclaimed: "Aiya, how daring these bullets are! Don't they know that Chairman Mao is here...
...Command Decision (MGM) was a Broadway hit play chiefly because of some brainy, brawny dialogue and Paul Kelly's skilled performance as Brigadier General K. C. ("Casey") Dennis, commanding a heavy bombardment division in England. In the movie, some of the sharp edges have been knocked off the dialogue by the censors, and, in the hands of Clark Gable, General Dennis has become a less forceful figure. The picture gets its chief vitality from Walter Pidgeon's vivid playing of cynical old Major General Kane...
...Command Decision largely ignores the men who handled the planes, although most of the film's emotional sock is in the bit parts of the men who flew missions, well played by John Hodiak, Cameron Mitchell, Marshall Thompson and Michael Steele. Like the play and the book before it, the movie makes out a sympathetic case for the desk-bound generals and echoes Novelist-War Correspondent Ernest Hemingway's observation that generals are good people...