Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...withdrawing from NATO is absurd. France is intelligent enough to realize that her security is to a large degree dependent on the American alliance. But De Gaulle thinks NATO's structure could be more efficient. For example, he thinks that there is too much integration in the army command, necessitating a discreet balance between generals and staff officers of the various countries. He won't change the structure by himself, but he would like to start negotiations to change...
...Canada does not need him, let Mr. Babinetz come to Colorado, where we need good teachers and we do not discriminate against people's sizes. My measurements: 6 ft. 1 in., 210 Ibs., 40-28-42. I do command authority...
...Allied soldier from General Eisenhower to Pvt. Schultz knew it. but D-day's luckiest augury was a pair of women's grey suede shoes, size 5½. They nestled in the command car of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as he sped away from his Normandy headquarters on the morning of June 4, 1944, D-minus-two. Rommel, charged with throwing back any invasion attempt, planned to ask Hitler for reinforcements during his visit to Germany, but something more personal sent him on his trip. June 6 was his wife's birthday, and the Desert Fox planned...
Ages in the midst of modern Europe, and it would hardly dare to attack the United States with the military resources at its command: a standing army of 20 mailclad bowmen...
When Ulysses was published in 1922, it showed Joyce's matchless command of the English language and his finger on the tragicomic pulse of human life. If that life sometimes seemed tinged with an indefinable futility, it was because Joyce tried to construct a universe without God. In such a universe, superstition cast a spell. He saw coincidences as magic omens and tried to have all his books published on his birthday (Feb. 2). He wore a special ring to ward off blindness. He carried a picture of the 17th century Due de Joyeux (no kin) in his wallet...