Word: commandeering
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While the varsity team, which commands the greatest interest in years, will dominate the headlines, the 1939 squad will command much interest this fall. It is a good year for the football enthusiast...
...Dixie, as coastal steamers go, is a first class ship. She is only eight years old, the flagship of her line, equipped with all modern navigation gadgets. Her commander, towheaded Captain Einar William Sundstrom, had a fine reputation for seamanship. Of his 50 years, 34 had been spent at sea. No stranger to marine disaster, he had been rammed off Galveston Bay, brought a vessel safely through a 120-m.p.h. hurricane. Of a philosophical turn of mind, Captain Sundstrom had observed upon taking command of the Dixie last year: "You've always got to be on guard against...
...Ababa last week, a jovial Englishman with the fat chaps of John Bull and a dour Maine Yankee worked furiously in secret. They were writing up something in English, something so important that no one Ethiopian scribe got a look at the whole thing. By the Emperor's command the English sheets were scrambled and handed out of order to different Ethiopian translators, all vowed to secrecy...
When frail, tired "N. Lenin" (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) died in 1924, the Bolshevist high command decided upon a strictly non-Christian apotheosis. A conference of scientists was called to find means of preserving the body. Biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky and Anatomist Vladimir Petrovich Vorobev offered to try, worked four months on the cadaver, which subsequently appeared under glass in a temporary tomb in the Red Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed...
...fighting coffers are stuffed with every sort of treasure wherewith to buy munitions, including some 10,000,000 gold lire ($2,000,000) paid by Italians after their 1896 defeat at Adowa and hoarded ever since by Ethiopians. That there is plenty of money at the Emperor's command appeared from the fact that huge quantities of munitions have been unloaded and spread over several acres at Djibouti in French Somaliland, terminal of the one & only railway to Addis Ababa. By order of French Premier Pierre Laval these constantly growing acres of munitions continued to be withheld from Ethiopia...