Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landauer violently denied that "the lettermen will have the prestige to command any significant additional response" from the crowd. He said the members of his squad are willing to train the athletes for next year, but that they refused as a body to have any member replaced before the end of the season...
...there is more to this decision than mere dissatisfaction with the current cheerleaders' behavior and organization. Pretty clearly the Council hopes that its athlete-cheerleaders will command more support from the stands than even the most sedate and well-organized bunch of lay-cheerers. It believes that most undergraduate spectators will know by sight at least a few of the prominent athletes holding the megaphones, and will respond more eagerly to their urgings...
...reach such goals, Khrushchev will not only have to raid Soviet high schools for manpower but also command a Soviet working force of heroic sobriety. Rolling on to his native village of Kalinovka on the northern edge of the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev declared war on demon rum. "The government is now drafting sterner measures against this evil." he told the villagers. "In restaurants we shall establish this rule: if you order spirits, you will be served one shot, but a second shot will be prohibited. Some may say so what; if they don't serve us in this restaurant...
...half of the 2,400 students now in the college would qualify for admission under the proposed system. Says Educator Chamberlain: "Preference should be given to the applicant who has completed, prior to entrance, four years of mathematics and science, who can read a foreign language, and whose command of English is demonstrated . . . These courses can be efficiently taught and learned in secondary school, and the time of the college student can be used more profitably on other subjects if he enters college already capable of handling these basic subjects and skills...
Viscount Montgomery's line was war. Sandhurst. 3½ years with the regular Army, and active service in France in World War I were more than prep schools on the way to promotion. In marching infantry prose, his book makes it plain that when he took command of the British Eighth Army in Africa in World War II, he was ready. According to him, and to history, he made Desert Fox Rommel fight Montgomery's kind of fight, and Monty won. Was he too tidy? Did all the pieces on his chess board have to be perfectly placed...