Word: commandeering
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...usual limitations are that statements must not be false, slanderous, libelous, blasphemous, obscene, immoral, inimical to the public welfare or tend to create warfare or incite to sedition. They must not corrupt the public morals, incite to crime, disturb the peace, create anarchy, teach soldiers disobedience of their command, impede or hinder the Government in its functioning...
...nothing could be more inaccurate, it is not of much value as a comment on the present problems of higher education. Mr. Williams' picture of the student of the nineties entering college athirst for knowledge but enticed away from it by the lure of athletics and managerships does not command credence by its cleverness. One suspects that a good many of Mr. Williams' fellow Freshmen were out quite openly in search of the good time which it appears circumstances forced down his own unwilling throat. Those were, one understands, the good old days; and whoever supposes that all our fathers...
...called at Schley's request, but in other respects it resembled the Mitchell trial: it drew a number of prominent officers as participants (Schley, Sampson and Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley was in active command. After the war a move was made to promote Sampson over the head...
...Nationalist members of the Cabinet (three of them) interpreted this resolution as a party command to resign and forthwith presented their resignations to Chancellor Luther. It was felt that this development would inevitably lead to serious delays in ratifying the treaties. The Monarchist press was headlining: "The Pact is dead...
...seldom reap ease by changing their professions. To command an Italian man-of-war would have been a sinecure compared to the business that occupies him now? a business that involves 80 principal artists, a chorus of nearly 300, an orchestra of 120, 12 assistant conductors, a ballet of 80 and 700 miscellaneous stagehands, ticket takers, officeworkers, wire-pullers. Each season 4 millions is taken in by the box office. Each season Manager Gatti-Casazza goes to probe in Europe for new operas, new singers. It was about some of these that he read so sonorously to the pressmen while...