Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ticket-hungry students, the Inter-House Dance Committee is hopefully exploring every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...
Died. Colonel Myron Ray Wood, 53, who rose from aviation cadet in World War I to head the Ninth A.A.F. Service Command in Europe in 1944, became postwar A.A.F. Chief of Supply; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Taking personal command of a doubled force, assistant manager Ralph E. Owen was reconstructing yesterday West's movements during his last week here, in investigations that led the detective from the Pot of Gold, a Scollay Square Tavern, to the Ritz Carleton Hotel. He reported numerous identifications, but stressed that many of them were unreliable...
...vise which Harry Bridges had screwed on Hawaii brought the island face to face with the hard facts of modern U.S. industrial-labor power plays. Sharp-nosed Harry Bridges had already taken temporary command of the islands' economy. If he could win a closed union shop for the sugar workers and make it stick, it would be a long step toward organization of the islands' workers-and that would be a long step toward domination of its economic and political life...
Then Ernest Thompson Seton had a vision that would restore all the youth of the world to nature. He blueprinted the organization of the Boy Scouts (with whose high command he later quarreled). Almost inevitably, the life and nature worship of the Indians obsessed him more & more. There seemed no other way out of civilization's ills...