Word: commandeering
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...their looming presence in our minds renders a movie like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas ludicrous. It concerns an eight-year-old boy named Bruno (Asa Butterfield) whose career soldier father (David Thewlis) is placed in command of a concentration camp early in the war. The child is unaware of the camp's function. He thinks it is some kind of farm. All he knows is that he has no friends and no worthwhile activities to divert him. He isn't even allowed to go to school; he and his sister are tutored at home by a Nazi functionary...
After a while, that little icon becomes less an option than a command. Refresh! Refresh! Refresh! You hit the button, take a big info swig and are left thirstier than you were before. It's the pause that doesn't refresh and the refresh that never pauses...
...greatest treasure in order to keep them safe! Roxanna trembled at the knowledge of how Frederick must be rescued. “I am not worthy!” she whispered to herself, her vestal veins thrumming. But her maidenly soul, however it quivered, could not ignore the command from on high. Roxanna felt herself drawn outside, as she always did during times of trial. In the garden, the air was cool with the promise of autumn. The vines twined themselves about the tall brick walls and the statues stood serenely, untouched except by the elements. She trailed her fingertips...
...When I interviewed him on Oct. 18, Obama said he was "happy" that General David Petraeus was at Central Command, supervising the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Last June, Obama told me that he would want "people like" Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in his Cabinet. Petraeus is studying the options in Afghanistan, with the goal of producing a detailed action plan for the next President by the end of December. It is likely the general will recommend the resumption of troop withdrawals from Iraq on something resembling the Obama timetable. Indeed, Iraq has slipped down the list of national...
...Sister Other right-leaning voters acknowledge what they see as Clark's Thatcheresque toughness and command of detail. But for many, these traits don't compensate for a government they see as increasingly paternalistic. Something like public outrage erupted in early October over a draft plan requiring that low-pressure shower heads be installed in new homes over a specified size, a trifle in itself but part of a wider narrative broadcast by anti-Clark forces that New Zealand has become a nanny state. It's a perception strongest in rural areas, where many farmers feel suffocated by bureaucracy. Sometimes...