Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell's fire." said Dwight D. Eisenhower as he shook the hand of Colonel Keith Ware, who once commanded 1st Battalion. 15th Infantry Regiment. "I used to command that outfit myself." The President was trading service talk about the ist Battalion, 15th Infantry and about other outfits with each of 216 Medal of Honor holders, who came to see him in the White House's rose garden on Memorial Day before they all went out to the burial of the unknown servicemen from World War II and Korea. Meeting an aging vet from the Philippine Scouts, he said...
Once he had joined the Kabyle guerrillas in the hills, Abbane brought all the local bands under a unified command, created a system of taxing inhabitants on the French model, set up recruitment and training centers. Practically under the guns of the French army, he called an all-Algeria conference of F.L.N. leaders in the Soummam valley, rammed through his entire program of no compromise, no quarter, no mercy...
Muffling its laughter, the House decided (79-32) that there is still a case for Dominican Republic aid. Foreign aid advocates swallowed hard, knowing well that Trujillo Jr., a lieutenant general in command of the Dominican Republic's two-bit air force and a student at the U.S. Army's prestige-making Command and General Staff College, is a prime example of the kind of irresponsible foolishness that gives any real enemy of foreign aid just the kind of potent ammunition that makes headlines. Flying into Washington the same day for a nightclub appearance, Zsa Zsa Gabor quickly...
Winding up his 17-day tour of the Soviet Union, President Gamal Abdel Nasser flew back to Cairo to assume command of the spreading Arab nationalist violence in the Middle East. Before seeing him off in a Russian jet airliner, the dictator of the Moskva hailed the dictator of the Nile for his "bravery, understanding and fearlessness before the colonizers," and pledged "all the help you need from us" in uniting the Arab world. At a huge farewell meeting for Nasser in the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev also boasted that with the launching of the new 1½-ton Sputnik...
...command performance, and Broadway responded with its best. While no fewer than nine understudies carried on in Manhattan, stars from five smash musicals, including Sally Ann Howes (My Fair Lady), Thelma Ritter (New Girl in Town) and ten-year-old Eddie Hodges (The Music Man), entertained White House guests last week in a special musicale at a dinner for the Supreme Court...