Word: commandeering
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...Witos Cabinet, rushed without warning upon his house, surrounded it, called to Pilsudski to come out and be thrashed. Thick-witted, they had not cut his telephone wire. With a lion's leap the Marshal seized the instrument, shouted the number of the nearest army barracks, bellowed a command to the astonished officer who answered. True Poles, every soldier in the barracks seized his gun, rushed frenziedly to the rescue of the man who symbolizes Polish freedom - whatever his extragavances of temperament and despite the fact that the Germans captured and imprisoned him (1914-18) while other Poles wrought...
Wazir Azarkhan dramatically informed the Franco-Spanish plenipotentiaries that Krim will continue to defy them, crying: "I am glad and happy of it! ... There is no justice in this world; I go back to resume command...
...twenty-six defense attorneys. The twenty-four prisoners, who sat close together on three long benches, arose one by one as their names were called, and nearly all confessed to having taken part in counterfeiting the piles of banknotes, but stated proudly: 1) that they had done so by command of their superior officers; or 2) that they had acted from the most disinterested patriotic motives. The forty-nine witnesses, including six Counts, two Barons, and one Bishop, fidgeted meanwhile, sniffed with disapproval the air of a courtroom jammed to suffocation...
...encampment chosen was one of several Romany bands usually to be found in Kent, Devonshire, Surrey, Berkshire or Buckinghamshire from late March on, after wintering on the Continent or in London. One pater familias or headman, Tombino, is typical of his fellows. Tombino raises a strain of horses that command top prices at any county fair in the kingdom. He moves his caravan from one fair to the next, establishing coconut-shies at each as a sideline. His children, numbering six† are sent, immediately upon arrival at a new location, to the nearest village school, presentably dressed and bearing...
...feet. Once, a mountainside had rushed out of the fog so close in front that the plane's right landing wheel missed a snow bank by inches. At Barrow, clouds and a split propeller had frustrated three attempted return flights. Wilkins advised Major Lanphier, his second-in-command, to bide at Fairbanks for good weather before going to join him in their big biplane, the Detroiter. The Barrow base was nearly complete for flights over the Arctic Sea to terra incognita...