Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these Army National Guardsmen, like the selected Air Guard units, are in a 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year condition of operational readiness. Army National Guard units are an integral part of the U.S. Army Air Defense Command; we are extremely proud of their readiness and capability in the defense of this nation against air attack...
...blast, however, the Tory convention was an unmuzzled bore. Convened before BBC television cameras at the Top Rank entertainment center in the beach resort of Brighton, it proved to be the most powerful argument for picking up a good book since the advent of televised wrestling. The Tory high command, following the example of Party Leader Ted Heath, sat solemnly on the speaker's platform, heavy-lidded, hard-shelled and heartburned. Little about the party leaders suggested that they were capable of standing up to the slogan emblazoned on the rostrum: PUT BRITAIN BACK ON HER FEET. Speaker after...
...parameters, traditionally described by the rebelliousness of youth and the self-consciousness of show business. It has become grey, middleaged, ubiquitous and eminently respectable, a coast-to-coast phenomenon that has infiltrated even the U.S. Army, that last bastion of the butch. Last March at Fort Ord, Calif., by command of the commanding officer, the compulsory 30-second scalp job for all recruits was succeeded by a permissive repertory of six hair styles...
...that U.S. forces are suffering "resounding blows," "annihilation" and "heavy defeat." Ho, hum. But Giap did say some things from which Hanoi watchers drew a few interesting conclusions. When all the boasting and saber rattling were cleared away, they agreed that his speech showed that the North Vietnamese military command...
...Egyptian pull-out has increased his desperation and turned his love of Nasser into blind hatred. He ordered the execution of his security chief, Colonel Abdel Kader Khatari, after Khatari's police fired into a mob attacking an Egyptian command post in San'a. Most Yemenis, Republicans and Royalists alike, want a negotiated end to the war, but Sallal rejects reconciliation on any terms. He has refused to recognize the committee of Arab leaders (the Premiers of Iraq and the Sudan, the foreign minister of Morocco) appointed at the Arab summit to arrange peace terms. When its members...