Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiss to prove that there ever was such a person as George Crosley. This week the committee would have Chambers and Hiss confront each other in public. But the committee had a greater responsibility than merely permitting the public to compare two stories. By all the means at its command, it had to find out-and tell the people-which story was true...
...armed services, which have been in an unseemly scrap over functions and prerogatives ever since they were put under one boss 13 months ago, were put in positions where they could carry on the fight under one roof. From its headquarters on Constitution Avenue, the Navy high command last week started moving across the Potomac to join the Army and Air Force in the Pentagon...
Their first greeting from their hosts was a bucket of cold water: the Soviet Foreign Office reported that Molotov was "out of town," on vacation. His second-in-command, Andrei Vishinsky, was also out of town-indisputably in Belgrade (see Conferences). Would the Westerners care to see the third-in-command, one Valerian Zorin? They would. One by one they saw Zorin, and though they left aide-mémoire, they said emphatically that they wanted to see Molotov. Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow...
...surprise to grumpy Joe, the master baseball mechanic, who kept saying all along: "We'll be all right. Let me do the worrying." Like any good mechanic, he knew how much horsepower was at his command. The trick was to get the engine tuned up. It took tinkering and time...
Coalman. Railroad Juggler Robert R. Young juggled his high command. To run the coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio while President Robert J. Bowman is on sick leave, the board named a coalman, Walter J. Tuohy, 47, as first vice president. A graduate of De Paul University, Tuohy was boss of Chicago's Globe Coal Co. when he joined the C. & O. in 1943 as vice president in charge of coal operations. Still unfilled was the vacancy left by Financial Vice President William H. Wenneman, who resigned because "too many [C. & O.] activities have been undertaken for the sole purpose...