Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yard campaign, now under the command of Robert Knox '51, has already poured $3283 into the Council's coffers. Here Thayer Hall is leading the dormitory pack, closely followed by Grays and Holworthy...
...Sachsenhausen prisoners, ranged in two rows in a playpen-like dock, made no attempt to deny their crimes. Some of them, doubtless under Russian influence, talked like the accused in 1937 purge trials. "I got into this net of criminality," said dark, intense August Hoehn, the camp second-in-command. (In one day, Hoehn had hanged, gassed and shot 510 prisoners in petulance over a superior's rebuke.) "I got so tangled in its strands, I couldn't go back. At the mere thought I could feel the cold barrel of a pistol on my neck...
Patton's well-known contempt for Montgomery seeps into these pages, but with less virulence than his supporters have indulged in. "The 31st was the last day on which Montgomery was to command United States troops, so all of us had a keen appetite for dinner. At 0800 [the next morning] we heard that Montgomery had been made a Field Marshal and proclaimed the greatest living soldier. Our appetite for breakfast was not so good." He quotes with approval Bradley's comment that Monty's promise of a "dagger thrust" at Germany would be more like...
...five Germans, three women and two men, re-roofing a house. They were not even waiting for Lend-Lease, as would be the case in several other countries I could mention." Later Patton's regard for Nazi efficiency resulted in his loss of the Third Army command in Bavaria. He persisted to the end that he was right. In his last entry, three months before his death, he wrote: "The one thing which I could not say then, and cannot yet say, is that my chief interest in establishing order in Germany was to prevent Germany from going communistic...
Harlow had spread his tackles by pre-game command, for fear of the Princeton close-lateral that puzzled Pennsylvania. Faced with that lineup, Caldwell simply sent his men through the center. Passing was little better than mediocre in the damp atmosphere except for Princeton's second tally, on which wing George Sella ran straight past defender Chuck Roche, took Dick Weat's 55-yard pass on the 12 and went on across