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Word: commandeering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high command of the Giulian Communist Party is the U.A.L.S. (Italo-Slovene Union of Anti-Fascists), a small inner-sanctum group whose chief strategist is Professor Oscar Ferlan. He concedes that Tito's Government is a dictatorship, but claims: "In Trieste as in Yugoslavia, the minority must act for the good of the majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Trieste Close-Up | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...First Service Command announced last weekend that 7,589 vacancies are available for national guard and reserve officers interested in returning to active duty, and a trip to the Boston Post Office is all that has to be done. Plain, ordinary A.U.S. brass isn't being slighted, either; apply, and they hand you a reserve or national guard commission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Limits To EM: Uncle Sam Has Brassy Vacancies | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

...addition to the brothers Fisher at tackle, charley Pierce will return from the 1945 squad, and newcomers Howie Houston and Walt Meserte should enter into the plans of the Holyoke Street High Command...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Passing the Buck | 7/30/1946 | See Source »

...What is the position of the Roman Catholic Church toward other creeds? '. . . The very existence of any other church is opposed to the command of Christ that all men should join His one Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yes & No | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Does each American have the right to choose his religion? 'The mere fact that a person sincerely believes a certain religion to be true, gives him no genuine right to accept that religion in opposition to God's command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Yes & No | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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