Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leave. His old Quaker alma mater, Indiana's small, earnest Earlham College (enrollment: 450), had offered him its presidency. Behind him in Nashville, slow-speaking, spiritual Thomas Elsa Jones left a tough challenge to his old students: "The Negro will get respect when he does things to command respect...
...instance, Sherrod tried for three days to buy a plane ticket for a quick trip from New Delhi, India, to Shanghai (via Calcutta and Manila). When he finally located the Air Transport Command officer and gave him money for the passage, the ATCman promptly lost it. So Sherrod bought another ticket and got to the airport just in time to watch his plane taking off (they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult...
There would be speeches, flag-raising, planes in the morning sky, and the distant echoes of 21-gun salutes. Crack troops of the battle-seasoned Philippine Army of 40,000, which the U.S. returned to Philippine command June 30-after presenting it with $50 million worth of arms and equipment-would lead the big parade. On the ship-shaped platform, resolutely pointing to the future, General Douglas MacArthur, who had promised to return and did, would speak. Silver-haired Paul McNutt, the retiring U.S. High Commissioner and the first U.S. Ambassador to the Philippine Republic, would read the formal proclamation...
...know whether that will please you or not. . . . Some time when you have reached a cooling-off period, I'd be glad to talk with you about the whole situation." Scrawled across the bottom of the typewritten page, in the President's hand, was the command invitation: "Come...
...ordinary movie house on Main Street to see an ordinary picture, your head will turn over the depths and the immensity of its platitude . . . I have seen luncheons organized by the Lions Club, where full-grown men, merchants of suspenders or of electric ranges, imitating lions, roared upon command...