Word: commandeering
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...state with all emphasis at my command that the Japanese nation makes it a basic principle to collaborate in peace and harmony with all nations, and has no intention whatever to provoke and make trouble with any other power...
...house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau Opal shoots herself dead. Von Rentzau marches in with a handful of troopers to inform the professor that because he had a son killed in the War, the high command has reinstated him at the university. Bearing his wife's body onstage, Professor Opal is in the midst of a terrific denunciation when a bullet silences him forever...
Last week the Navy announced that about June 1 Commander Wiley would take command of the Macon. He is a veteran of five years' service on the sturdy old Los Angeles (now decommissioned). Before the House Naval Affairs Committee investigating the Akron's fate, he told how water rushing into one cabin window washed him out of another, how he swam clear of the ship. When the inquiry was over he was sent to sea as navigating officer on a cruiser. Commander Alger Herman Dresel, who has been the Macon's skipper since it first emerged from...
...must have soon learned why others had not attempted to write a biography of his chosen hero. Lewis was far from being an outstanding man and except for his leadership of the Expedition of Discovery (whose success may with greater justice be attributed to William Clark, the second in command) which he received through the patronage of Thomas Jefferson, we may be sure that the name of Merriwether Lewis would never have been recorded in history except as a moderately successful army officer beaten down by a morbid sense of solitude...
...lyrical descriptions and adulterated by extraneous, pseudo-historical incidents, which although occasionally interesting, are usually irrelevant. For more than 150 pages the reader is carried through a synopsis of the expedition's journal whose principal revelation is that Lewis acted largely as a botanical expert while Clark took active command. The remaining few pages are devoted to an account of Lewis' term as governor of the Louisiana Territory, to which post he had been appointed by Jefferson--an account which would be lamentably brief if it were not that he accomplished little as governor and became so despondent that...