Word: commandeering
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Manning's Command. A non-sectarian Protestant organization calling itself the Christian Unity League (president, Baltimore's Dr. Peter Ainslie, Disciple of Christ) planned a conference in Manhattan for last week. Dr. Karl Reiland, Liberal Episcopal preacher, a member of the league, invited the conference to meet at his church, St. George's. A feature of the three-day meeting was to be a communion service conducted by the Presbyterian Liberal Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. When newspapers announced the service, those who knew Bishop William Thomas Manning...
Psychiatrist Abraham Arden Brill (Freud-follower): "I am heartily opposed to the killing of this woman. . . . Society is based on repression, and the most important repression is the command 'Thou shalt not kill...
...snapped M. Tardieu, the Government would not "pronounce 'laicisms'"? and suddenly he demanded a vote of confidence, staked his whole political future shrewdly on a word. The shrewdness lay in that he had neatly chosen an issue on which the Government could not fail to command the Catholic vote...
...deafening clamor. Again stacking their arms. Senate warriors fell to loud and disputatious shouting as to the responsibilities for tariff delays. Two weeks had been spent on the first of 15 separate rate schedules in the bill. All were agreed upon the impossibility of complying with the Olympian command that the measure be disposed of in the same length of time...
...many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...