Word: behest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outbreak, Munoz Grandes was arrested by the Republicans and sentenced to death, but was released in a routine exchange of prisoners. He quickly joined Franco, was soon commanding a corps on the Pyrenees front. At the end of the war, Munoz Grandes, at Franco's behest, became secretary-general of the Fascist Falange, specifically to integrate the freewheeling Falangist militia into the Spanish army...
...mentioned a temple of Artemis that flourished at Vravron. Aristophanes hinted at strange orgies. The rest was a tantalizing mixture of myths and the real civilization of the time. Euripides, in plays, described how Artemis rescued Iphigenia from being sacrificed by her father Agamemnon, and how later, at the behest of Athena, Iphigenia became Artemis' priestess at Vravron. She dwelt near some "holy stairs." and when she died, her grave was adorned "with braided gowns of softest weave" left to the shrine "by women dead with child...
...invoke the provisions of the First Amendment on behalf of college editors is to miss the point. A newspaper operates on campus at the behest of administrative officials, just as do social clubs and political groups. Its rights and privileges are defined and limited by presidents, boards of regents, trustees and overseers--whoever makes and administers educational policy...
...days of World War II as simultaneous ambassador to seven Allied governments in exile, subsequently switched over to a staff job at Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF and stayed on in the Army till his 1955 retirement as a major general, returned to diplomacy only last March at the behest of President Kennedy...
...hand-me-down maxims, including a standing head that ran over every police story: CRIME NEVER PAYS. One of the most enigmatic samples of U.S. newspaper wisdom comes from Mark 4:28 and runs above the Christian Science Monitor's lucid editorial page. It was adopted at the behest of Founder Mary Baker Eddy, who prescribed the original quote from the King James Version of the Bible: "First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear." Staving off endless wisecracks, a resourceful editor substituted the verse as it appears in the American Standard Version...