Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Okinawa, where more than four years ago U.S. arms won a famous and a costly victory (80,000 dead & wounded), General Douglas MacArthur's Pacific command has carried on a postwar occupation without much notice from the outside world. TIME Correspondent Frank Gibney toured the all-but-forgotten island, cabled...
Airman Sherman called in Crommelin and announced his verdict. Crommelin was to get a stiff letter of reprimand, and would be transferred away forthwith from the pitfalls of Washington to San Francisco to serve as aviation officer on the staff of Vice Admiral George D. Murray, Commander of the Western Sea Frontier. That was all. But in the letter of reprimand, Crommelin was sternly told that his defiance of his superiors had "brought into question your fitness to exercise command or to occupy a position of trust and confidence...
...pragmatists, who had had a vast influence over education in the U.S. for many decades, held to their basic proposition that men must study the facts at their command, test them in the light of science and their own experience and plan their conduct accordingly; it was up to each generation to decide for itself...
...unpredictable. On one of her rare appearances without the company, she told Helpmann she would positively not make a speech at the supper given in her honor after a command performance in Copenhagen. After Helpmann had tactfully told the guests that "Miss Fonteyn is too moved to speak," she stood up and talked for six minutes. She loves to jitterbug. Helpmann says that after dancing with her in ballet for 14 years, he only really got to know her after jitterbugging with her until dawn one time last year...
...leading bid for Academy Award honors-and the first job at the studio to be signed by Producer Dore Schary-stacks up well against such recent combat films as Task Force and Command Decision; nonetheless such a wartime documentary as San Pietro makes it seem like a put-up job. Rarely catching the quick fury of infantry fighting, the camera shots are mostly the comfortable, carefully composed setups that are possible in a studio production, but in actual warfare would mean a quick death for the cameraman. Neatest trick: in most of the snowstorm scenes the snow sticks to everything...