Word: commandeering
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When they reached the second bridge it was decided that they'd gone far enough, and the command was given to make for the Weld Boathouse. But the three untutored souls upset all the plans by refusing to turn around. Twice the order was given, and twice the shell refused to turn...
...showing do you think we could put up in a war if the army can't fly the mail across country even in peace time?" said Brigadier General William (Billy) Mitchell, one-time stormy petrel of the Army Air Force in a CRIMSON interview. The General, who was in command of the Air Force of the Second Army during the war, resigned several years ago after a violent altercation with his superiors on the subject of a unified air force...
...shells raced past the half-mile and then past the mile. Suddenly Bissell barked out his crisp command. "Up it, Gerry. Send it up." It was the signal to raise the stroke, to start the last...
...dans la rue misunderstanding, which resulted in French troops opening fire upon Paris civilians, brings to my mind a curiously parallel story which was widely circulated after the coup d'état of Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux!"-"My wretched cough"-which was misinterpreted by a zealous officer as "Massacrez tous," or "Kill everybody...
Thereupon Turkish police paid a third visit to the Maiotis. Samuel Insull was in his pajamas. They ordered him to come with them as he was and prepared to carry out their command by force. As a concession they finally allowed him to dress. Then they put him in their launch and carried him ashore in a pouring rain. They arraigned him in a Turkish court. An interpreter was found who knew little Turkish and less English. The court debated: was Samuel Insull a Turkish citizen? No. Was his crime political or military? No. Therefore he should be detained, handed...