Word: commandeering
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...abolition of Dyarchy is expected to soothe native opinion and admit native statesmen to all ministries of the government. Eventually then, the Indian federation would be made up of locally self-governed states. But at the top of the whole pyramid the Viceroy must remain supreme, strong in his command of the army...
...command of the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, bespectacled "Son of Heaven," a gift which gurgled was despatched to the home of onetime Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki last week immediately after his return from London where he was Chief Delegate of Japan at the Naval Conference (TIME...
Before dawn on May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen, Revolutionary irregular, led 83 soldiers, mostly Green Mountain Boys of his own recruiting, across Lake Champlain. On the way Allen and Benedict Arnold wrangled profanely as to who was to command. They landed under the Grenadiers' Battery at Fort Ticonderoga. As the clear sky reddened into the day the American troopers, drawn up in three ranks, marched up to the British fort's sally port. The red-coated sentinel's fusee missed fire. The invaders pushed headlong and shouting into the walled parade ground...
...died in November 1918. The Goodman Theatre, built below ground level behind the Art Institute to leave the South Parkway lake frontage unobstructed, cost $300,000 and was endowed with $150,000. When Thomas Wood Stevens, then head of Carnegie Institute's drama department, was placed in full command of the enterprise, artistic Chicagoans were delighted, predicted great things for the Goodman Theatre and creative stagecraft in Chicago. Week before last Director Stevens resigned his position, announcing that he and the Art Institute committee which governs the theatre were incompatible. Chicago's drama lovers wondered what the future...
...occupied by thoughts of society reporters or fashionable dressmakers, but mothers invited by the Government of the United States to make their first and last visit to the graves of their sons in France who fell in the 27th and 30th divisions of the American Army, fighting under British command by the side of their comrades of the British Army...