Word: commandeers
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...Lewis sat enthroned before a map of the world, his shoulders blotting out whole oceans. Of the Western Hemisphere, only Alaska was visible over his white-streaked haystack of hair. He had assumed a new role: military strategist. If only, he muttered wistfully, "it were in my power to command...
This is probably my last message. I'm staying with General Stilwell and a small command post directing the rear-guard action on approaches to India and northernmost Burma...
Most novel of the evening's performers will be Arthur Blake, mimic of White House fame, who scored hits in two command performances before the President and First Lady. It is expected that Blake will contort the Freshmen with his popular impersonation of Mrs. Roosevelt, which, the nation's press reported, was very well received on Capitol Hill...
Hardy as tumbleweed and persistent as the seven-year itch, U.S. civilian flyers argued for years their worth as a backlog of pilots for the military. Last week they got their first minuscule recognition-a commendatory Army news release. The praise came not from the High Command, but from an officer afield...
Major General Follett Bradley, of the Air Force, Eastern Defense Command, made the announcement. Flyers of the Civil Air Patrol, doggedly buzzing away over miles on miles of sea wastes, had contributed to the sinking of some Axis submarines by tipping off bombers to their whereabouts...