Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere paintings, and their painting is not a craft but a liturgical art. The Eastern Orthodox Church holds that every icon partakes of the glory of the prototype, breathing an ineluctable essence of divinity. Although the icon painter uses the material means and arts that are at his command, with prayerful approach he shows the eternal aspects...
...threatening an Illinois company with extinction unless its employees joined the Teamsters. Oregon's Wayne Morse, grey-black eyebrows beetling over angry grey eyes, retorted acidly that a blow against peaceful picketing was a blow against "the cardinal principle of freedom of speech." Kennedy himself, now back in command, came striding down the center aisle to the Senate's well to argue against the amendment's sweeping nature. "I myself would be forced to vote against the bill," he said, "and ask that my name be stricken from it, if this amendment were adopted." McClellan...
...notion of a split with the venerable Byrd organization-and went out of his way to shake hands with the diehards. But Virginians could hardly help noticing that as the Old Dominion turned away from Byrd's disastrous massive resistance policies, Lindsay Almond was very much in command...
...Only a crash program on a "war footing" can do the trick-a program that slices through Indian love of paper-shuffling solutions and provides a "far-reaching, centralized authority with a clear line of command and execution...
Discussing "Defense Policy in the Missile Age," MacIntyre pointed out that with Russia "only 30 minutes away from a ballistic missile launching site," future warfare will demand a unified command chain...