Word: commandeering
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...Richard Scheringer, Hans Ludin, Friedrich Wendt) were charged with inciting their men to join a Fascist putsch should it be proclaimed. Without quite admitting their guilt the young officers waxed hotly truculent. "I would obey an order to shoot down Communists," shouted Lieutenant Scheringer, "but I would disobey a command to fire on men of my own persuasion...
...being U. S. Fleet Com- mander. By virtue of his new, coveted office, he retains that rank. But Admiral Hughes last week kicked himself down a step in naval rating to rear admiral. Last week the Navy Department announced the appointment of a new full admiral to take command of the Fleet: Rear Admiral John Valentine Chase, whilom member of the Navy General Board, who plans to confer over the Treaty Navy with his new chief before hoisting his four-starred flag above the flagship Texas...
Would Russia obey this order? Could two private citizens successfully command a Great Power? How did they ever get to thinking that they could? Was this to be the historic test case on the outcome of which businessmen throughout the world may base their opinion of the Soviet State's good or bad faith...
...Senores Representantes," he cried dramatically, "upon resigning irrevocably the supreme command of the republic, I state that I served my country with all the energies of my heart and all the lights of my brain...
General Manuel Maria Ponce, a Leguia friend, was placed in command of the revolutionary Junta (military government). Ex-President Leguia and his son Juan fled to the cruiser Almirante Grau, begged to be taken to a neutral port. Other members of the numerous Leguia family scurried to the safety of Lima's foreign embassies...