Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When an enemy submarine is sunk, the British Admiralty usually delays announcement of it, to withhold information and increase worry for the German High Command. Last week the Admiralty departed from this custom, announced the sinking in one day of two U-boats by one British destroyer. Emphasized-to encourage neutrals-was the fact that these U-boats had attacked a convoy off Ireland. Additional fact: they sank at least one of the convoyed ships (the Canadian Beaverburn). And another ship, the Chagres, was lost to a mine...
...From Copenhagen to Finland went 62-year-old Colonel Valdemar Tretow Loof, who had just resigned from the Danish Army, to take command of 600 Danes already there, incorporate them into a Danish battalion. His acceptance by the Finns ended a squabble between the Finns and the Danish volunteers, who had been commanded by a Finnish major. Besides these infantrymen, the Danes have a ten-plane air wing in service with the Finns (its ace flier, Lieut. Fritz Rasmussen, was recently shot down in action), 13 surgeons and 40 nurses with the hospital service. Last week Copenhagen began recruiting...
...materials. To his forceful hatred of Fascism Hemingway has added a love story which amounts to little more than that. The romance does not seem real; it certainly has no vital connection with the rest of the ideas in the play. Clothing this poorly-wedded couple is Hemingway's command of the English language. Yet clothes do not make the play...
...Municipal Council, a true plutocracy, is elected by qualified ratepayers to represent business interests; Japanese businessmen have therefore been moving in, already control more than a third of the ratepayers' votes, may control more by election time in April. Should they unseat the British-American bloc now in command, the wobbly Chinese dollar, hitherto bolstered by British (?5,000,000) and American ($25,000,000) loans, might lose exchange value faster still...
HELSINKI--The Finnish high command tonight announced that the stonewall defenses of the Mannerheim Line are hurling back Red Army blows at four points on Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland in the fiercest fighting...