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wangled and which
* In Evelyn Waugh's 1952 novel Men at Arms ( the first of the Sword of Honour trilogy ), a ( RAF ) Air Marshal recites the poem upon spotting a polar-bear rug by the fire in a London club, of which he has just wangled membership ( p. 125 ).
The story is somewhat changed from the novel, in which " Sailor ," ( not Gagin ) had wangled a deferment from serving in the war, the details of the blackmail and many others have been made less sordid, and the names of the other main non-Mexican characters ( and their stations in life ) are different as well.

wangled and .
Drafted into the Austrian army, he rebelliously rejected discipline, wangled a Vienna billet, went on painting.

transfer and Royal
Upon the transfer of the colony to British control, the British government issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which imposed English common law on the colony, under the principle set out in Blackstone relating to captured colonies.
With the establishment of the Royal Air Force two months later and the transfer of Cranwell from Navy to Air Force control, he transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Air Force.
* USS Cordova, an escort aircraft carrier renamed HMS Khedive ( D62 ) upon transfer to the Royal Navy
This period was brought to a close with the Decree issued on 23 October 1714 by the Royal High Commission for Justice and Government of Catalonia-created by the Duke of Berwick-ordering the immediate transfer of the Faculties of Philosophy, Law and Canon Law to Cervera.
This has been out of use for many years following the transfer of Royal Mail's activities to the West of England Mail Centre, at Filton.
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger and the transfer from Surrey to Greater London of the Municipal boroughs of Kingston-upon-Thames ( which itself was a Royal Borough ), Malden and Coombe and Surbiton.
This led to the transfer to the museum of the School of Design that had been founded in 1837 at Somerset House, after the transfer it was referred to as the Art School or Art Training School, later to become the Royal College of Art which finally achieved full independence in 1949.
The success at the Royal Court allowed the production to transfer to the 270-seat Classic Cinema on Kings Road in Chelsea, from 14 August 1973 to 20 October 1973.
The Special Branch of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force was disbanded in 1995, prior to the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997.
In the pacta conventa, Władysław pledged himself to fund a military school and equipment ; to find a way to fund a naval fleet ; to maintain current alliances ; not to raise armies, give offices or military ranks to foreigners, negotiate peace treaties or declare war without the Sejm's approval ; not to take a wife without the Senate's approval ; to convince his brothers to take an oath to the Commonwealth ; and to transfer the profits from the Royal Mint to the Royal Treasury rather than to a private treasury.
* a play ( 1989 ) by British playwright Michael Wall first performed at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester prior to a transfer to the Hampstead Theatre in London ; and
In 1807, at the age of 5, Miguel accompanied the Portuguese Royal Family on their transfer to Brazil in order to escape from the first Napoleonic invasion of Portugal ; he returned in 1821 with João VI and his mother, while his brother Peter remained behind as governor of Brazil.
The first flights to Don Muang were made on March 8, 1914 and involved the transfer of aircraft of the Royal Thai Air Force.
By raising finances through buying polo ponies cheaply, using his excellent horsemanship to train them, and then selling them for a profit, Byng was able to transfer to the 10th Royal Hussars on 27 January 1883, and less than three months later joined the regiment in Lucknow, India.
A supply vessel, the Lark approached the Royal George on her low side to transfer a cargo of rum.
Despite missing many performances ( citing health problems ) and withdrawing nearly five months early from the production's transfer to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she won the award for best actress in a musical at the 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards.
The play has been adapted as a musical at least three times, first as The Boys from Syracuse with a score by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, then in 1976 in a version by Trevor Nunn, scored by Guy Woolfenden, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, winning the Laurence Olivier Award for best musical on its transfer to the West End in 1977, and in 1981 as Oh, Brother!
The production closed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 6 November 2010 but will transfer to run until 8 January 2011.
One of his last stage performances was as Elisha Whitney in Cole Porter's Anything Goes at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, but was too unwell to make the transfer from the National Theatre to the West End.
In 1540, he approved the transfer of control of the grammar school to the Warden and Society of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, and gave the school land for its own use the following year.
A fourth ship was to receive the name, but her transfer from the Royal Navy to the Royal Australian Navy was cancelled:

transfer and Army
The transfer of the property of the 4th Army ( except for part of the property of the 366th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 23rd Motor Rifle Division captured by Armenian armed formations in 1992 during the regiment's withdrawal from Stepanakert ) and the 49th arsenal was completed in 1992.
Konoe was not the only one to be frustrated ; the Army wanted a settlement so that it could transfer more troops to the north in order to be prepared for combat with the Soviet Union.
The Allied resolution on the " orderly transfer " of German population became the legitimation of the expulsion of Germans from the certain parts of Central Europe, if they had not already fled from the advancing Red Army.
" When rumors circulated that the top job would go to Marshall, many critics viewed the transfer as a demotion for Marshall, since he would leave his position as Chief of Staff of the Army and lose his seat on the Combined Chiefs of Staff.
This film takes up Patton's story following his transfer to assume command of the 15th Army, through to the car crash and his death on the December 21, 1945.
Only the Secretary of Defense ( or the President ) can authorize the transfer of operational control of forces between the three Military Departments ( Departments of the Army, Navy & Air Force ) and the currently nine Combatant Commands ( Africa Command, Central Command, European Command, Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, Special Operations Command, Strategic Command, Transportation Command ), and between the Combatant Commands.
The Long March most commonly refers to the transfer of the main group of the First ( or Central ) Red Army, which included the leaders of the Communist Party of China, from Yudu in the province of Jiangxi, to Yan ' an in Shaanxi.
Recruited through voluntary enlistment or transfer from other regiments of men with at least two years service, the Zouaves quickly achieved the status of an elite amongst the French Army of Africa.
* Interest of the United States in the transfer of German populations from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, and Austria, Foreign relations of the United States: diplomatic papers, Volume II ( 1945 ) pp. 1227 – 1327 ( Note: Page 1227 begins with a Czechoslovak document dated 23 November 1944, several months before Czechoslovakia was " liberated " by the Soviet Army.
The Civilian Marksmanship Program was authorized by Congress in 1903 and run by the United States Army from 1916 to 1996 to transfer obsolete military firearms to United States civilians to learn and practice marksmanship skills with NRA so they would be skilled marksmen if later called on to serve in the U. S. military.
However, many voters were absent in the Confederate Army when the vote was taken and they refused to accept the transfer upon their return.
Many voters absent in the Confederate Army when the vote was taken refused to acknowledge the transfer upon their return.
With spies providing the certain knowledge that Japanese forces in the far east would not attack Siberia, the Soviets were able to transfer large numbers of experienced forces from the far east, and in the Winter of 1941 / 1942 they used them to counter-attack the German Army Group Centre in front of Moscow.
On October 21, 1959, he approved the transfer of all Army space-related activities to NASA.
A few weeks later, on November 16, 1956, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson directed the Army to transfer of North Camp Cooke to the United States Air Force for use as a missile launch and training base.
A year later, the Secretary of the Army approved the transfer of the rocket research and development activities from Fort Bliss to the new center at Redstone Arsenal.
Ceremony of transfer from Army to NASA July 1, 1960
On October 21, 1959, President Eisenhower approved the transfer of all Army space-related activities to NASA.
Here he was posted until being granted his request for transfer to the Southern Army in August 1780.
Rundstedt's armies were also weakened by the transfer of units back to Army Group Centre to take part in the attack on Moscow ( Operation Typhoon ).
Although part of USASOS, ASCOM operated under the control of Sixth Army, moving as far forward as combat operations allowed, developed new bases, and operated them until USASOS was ready to take over, at which point the units under ASCOM simply reverted back to USASOS, allowing a seamless transfer of command.
Thirty-one-year-old Army Air Force Second Lieutenant Reagan was assigned to Culver City's First Motion Picture Unit ( 18th AAF Base Unit ) at this time, which was some three months after his voluntary transfer from the Army Cavalry, and five years after having been commissioned from the enlisted ranks of the U. S. Army Reserve in Iowa.
The fort, which was the former British Army barracks in Stanley, is now occupied by the People's Liberation Army following the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997.

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