Word: commandeers
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...battle pitches a tent of smoke and dust over itself. Into the murk new forms rush. Supply vehicles, naked of protection, dart squarely into the mixup, make contact with tanks which have run out of fuel or ammunition, and, if they are not crumpled, bounce out again. Command cars dash in & out. Ambulances go in undaunted, and their crews run about hunting wounded...
Muscovites are human; they are acquainted with fear. But they and the regular Army around them are just as determined as the defenders of Leningrad, and all are apt to pay heed to the command which their Government gave them last week...
...only pursued Germans, instead of catching large numbers of them. They went only 60 miles, with 600 to go. There was no guarantee that the Germans would not bounce right back. But it was a victory; it was tangible in geographic terms; it was admitted by the German High Command; and it set a precedent worthy of emulation...
...This has been brilliantly illustrated in our campaigns in Africa, but you will not get it while you are dependent for decision and action on the cumbrous machinery of Whitehall. . . . One reason suggested for my dismissal was that I was too old (69) to lead shock troops, but the command of such a force does not necessarily mean leading it into action. This is a young man's war and my object was to give youth its chance...
Topics have ranged from the spiritual and economic future of Britain to the flight of the house fly. A bomber-command pilot stirred up a national crisis in entomology by asking "How does a fly land on a ceiling? Does it loop the loop, or what?" This was a poser to all the experts, including Professor Huxley, and the more they thought about it the less sure they became. That night, in pubs all over England, flies were shooed zealously toward ceilings, fly-watchers argued long...