Word: commandeering
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...There is hardly an administrative official of importance in the Federal Government who is not serving to the sacrifice of the satisfactions and remunerations he could command from private life. The only thing they can hope for is the enhancement of their reputations with their countrymen. The one hope of high service and integrity and ability is that such men should be willing to undertake it, and when men of a lifetime of distinction and probity do undertake it, they should not be subjected to infamous transactions of this character...
...lost my ring.' . . . The next morning, imagine my surprise to find he had sent me around one of the loveliest solitaires I possess today." During the War, the book's index relates: "My house [in Paris] was the social head quarters of the U. S. A. High Command...
...chocolate-brown Julian the olive-skinned Emperor's command seemed unreasonable, sinister. How could he stunt successfully a ship he had never flown before? He decided that the lesser risk was to brave imperial wrath, go up for at least one practice flight...
...even the Emperor. Thus the wrathful monarch was watching when his Black Eagle turned into a Black Crow, lost control of his ship at an altitude of 100 ft., crashed in a mass of tangled wreckage. "Spite work!" cried Colonel Julian emerging uninjured from the mess. "That Frenchman who commanded the Abyssinian Air Force before I took command tampered with my ship. Spite work...
Today marks the opening of American Education Week, a period to be devoted to the cause of making America education minded. Its sponsors, the American Legion and the American Education Association will carry on the campaign with all the heavy artillery at its command. Radio, movies, press and public discussion will all be pressed into the service of this great and vital cause...