Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members, the most of any dues-paying political organization in the College, are organized for this work by a complicated hierarchy of officers under Rusher's command. There is, for instance, a voting bureau to help with data and aid at election times; a biweekly newsletter distributed to members; a speakers' bureau; and sundry other promotional departments...
...were failing. What actually happened at Pearl Harbor and in the months preceding that disaster is unclear even today, but there can be little doubt that poor intelligence contributed to it. During the war, the German breakthrough in the Ardennes is blamed largely on the fact that the Allied command was taken completely by surprise...
...Port of Beaumont had sailed from the U.S. 15 months ago, with 19 men and two women, under the command of ex-Navy Commander Finn Ronne (rhymes with bonnie). The expedition had had probably the most ambitious scientific agenda of any that ever ventured into Antarctica: data for the U.S. Government, the American Antarctic Association, the American Geographical Society, colleges and foundations...
Head supervisor of this precedent-shattering re-vote is Samuel M. Robbins '45, who assumed command after the Council tossed out the results of the first election on Tuesday...
These introductory bits served a purpose, however, in preparing both pianist and audience for Hindemith's Sonata No. 1, for by the time Lee reached the second movement it was apparent to all that he was in complete command. The Hindemith piece, a product of the composer's earlier romantic period, is somewhat long for what it contains, nor does it have sufficient unity to bind it together. "In the tempo of a very slow march," the second movement, however, does include passages of great beauty, and the pianist put it forth with unquestioned understanding and competence. The growing excitement...