Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ninth day after sentence, a guard unlocked Pierre Pucheu's cell, a chaplain said a brief mass. At the place of execution Pierre Pucheu spurned a blindfold, stared firmly at the firing squad, himself gave the command, "Ready! . . . Aim! . . . Fire!", then slumped in death...
...days U.S. and British bombers dropped 20,000 tons of bombs on Nazi targets. The heavy attacks brought Luftwaffe fighter planes out in force and that was exactly what the Allies, and particularly the day-fighting U.S. Strategic Command, wanted...
...Fundamentalists are a severely secretive group. They build no churches, meet quietly in members' homes. But their unabashed magazine Truth advocates polygamy as a divine command. For the Fundamentalists, who hotly reject President Woodruff's revelation, consider themselves the true disciples of the many-wived Mormon Founding Fathers, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young...
...record is in danger. This week Joe Foss turned up again in the South Pacific. He had just taken command of one of the Marines' crack Corsair squadrons, was on the prowl again...
...Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading a Chinese beachhead attack against the Japs. At his death he was serving in the Amphibious Training Command...