Word: commandeering
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...father was a member of the legislature of South Carolina, and fought in the Indian War of 1836. His great-grandfather came to the colonies from Dublin when he was a child and lived to command a regiment in the Revolution. Asa Griggs Candler, born too late for Indians and Redcoats, began his business career in the drugstore of Best & Kirkpatrick in Carters- ville. Ga. He had almost no money. His family was indifferent to money. Let a man be honest-shrewdness was unnecessary. It was about 1887 that he sold in his store (he had started a little dispensary...
...Harvard University will see these years as introductory, in our educational system, of much that bears an English stamp. But they may well be puzzled at our discrimination, at our choice of what to borrow, and what merely to admire. And among those things peculiar to Oxford which command our flattery at something below its most sincere form, there is nothing more remarkable than their debating...
...including members of Parliament to enlist his eloquent services on their Parliamentary campaign and his wide experience as a public speaker both in the Union at Cambridge and at public meetings at election times has given him that grasp of facts and fluency of expression which alone can command an audience's attention
Later it was announced that General Obregon will himself command the 30,000 troops which the Government has announced it will send against the Yaquis...
...Oldenburg. He alleged that "her continual efforts to secure employment in the motion picture industry have become a source of humiliation to the House of Hohenzollern." She promptly filed a counter suit accusing him of degeneracy. It was recalled that she married him in 1906, virtually at the command of the Kaiser, who wished to bring the vast wealth of the Oldenburgs within the Hohenzollern family. Should the divorce be granted she is expected to marry Baron Plettenburg to whom she was engaged before the Kaiser intervened. To him she wrote...