Word: usurpation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to be dominated by admirals, but he made no attempt to usurp their jealously held prerogatives. He simply did his job, better, perhaps, than any service Secretary in history. He drove himself with a kind of quiet intensity. Year after year he worked seven days a week, from early morning until late at night. His vacations were risky expeditions under fire on the battlefronts...
Those interested in the project should see Liebman in Leverett D-51. "But Cliffe girls need not apply," he emphasized, recalling previous Annex attempts to usurp the cheerleaders...
King: "Yes, because when I called you this morning you treated me as a mere nothing [thumping the desk]. I do not permit you to take liberties with my person. Do you think I can permit you to usurp my prerogatives and simply look on like a fool while my country crumbles away...
...planters would not budge on the biggest point: the union shop. To the Big Five the union shop seemed like Harry Bridges' gambit to usurp the powers of management...
...vast C.I.O. automobile union and the vast automobile industry nagged and bickered constantly. Industry said that the U.A.W. was trying to usurp the functions of management. The union said that the industry was hoarding labor...