Word: commandeering
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...while officer-of-the-deck of the said ship, say in a disrespectful and contemptuous manner to one Edward Hallett Preble, then a Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, who was then and there in the execution of his office, 'You are an incompetent misfit; who told you you could command this ship?', or words to that effect." Of this charge, the accused was acquitted, but for the first offence, of which he was convicted, the defendant was sentenced to a demotion of 50 numbers...
That they were squaring off at the biggest Protestant question of a century doubtless did not occur at once to the little group of Baptist laymen who met with John D. Rockefeller Jr. in Manhattan one night in January 1930. They knew that in Christ's command. "Go ye therefore and teach all nations," lay the largest task of Christianity. Good businessmen, they and Mr. Rockefeller knew that gifts to missions had now fallen off alarmingly. People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money. Most people...
There is no reason why Harvard's next President should be a scholar by profession; there is every reason why he should be a scholar by instinct. Any man who lacks genuine sympathy with the best kind of scholarship or who does not command respect for his own intellectual attainments is disqualified for holding any high position in a university. The suggestions for making a business man President and leaving educational policy to the Deans are on the wrong track...
Twice backed up to within four yards of their own goal line, the Harvard eleven showed a stubborn resistance which was so completely shattered last week, and thereby indicated that, in spite of several second and third string substitutions, it still had at its command the power to withstand attack when not rattled. As conspicuous as this new line defense was, a forward-pass defense, which has not been seen in the Stadium this year, rendered the Holy Cross passes incomplete 18 times, and five times prevented the Crusaders from scoring...
...talk to scan the Soviet record: Russia's 15 Red Years began with a prelude on Oct. 26, 1917 when slender, semitic, smouldering-eyed Leon Trotsky (né Bronstein) harangued the existing Petrograd workers' Soviet (council) into passing a resolution that Trotsky & Friends should take supreme military command, replacing Alexander Kerensky's wavering authority in Petrograd...