Word: commandeering
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Cried M. Malvy: "I was made the scapegoat of our High Command! The High Command knows that the blood of Chemin des Dames is not on these hands of mine! They are clean! I besought you, M. Briand, not to call me into your Cabinet. I told you my enemies would repeat these lies. Gladly I would resign...
...this family doctor had to perform, on the spot and without the elaborate accessories a specialist would have at his command, a monstrously delicate operation. His humble confrères everywhere must in emergencies do deeds comparably as difficult. They go their long ways night and day unapplauded otherwise than by the devotion of their patients...
...Schlamm (blood and mud). Moreover he had become a valued if not a great tactician and had served as a professor at the War Academy. In 1896 his reward came. He was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the VIII Army Corps, and in 1904 was transferred to command the IV Army Corps−the summit of a German General's hopes in time of peace...
...star plays a worthy young man who becomes a pirate to avenge his father, murdered by other pirates. Vanquishing the leader of the wicked crew, he assumes command and takes the next prize singlehanded. Thereon he finds a lovely girl (Billie Dove). Subsequently he humanizes the pirates...
...cost of leadership today is high; and if Harvard is to lead, it must have the means to command the kind of men that have enabled it to lead in the past, and to continue a tradition of great teaching...