Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only one major question was involved: Did the Gomulka government still command enough respect to bring voters out in large numbers for a national election? A year ago an impressive 94% of eligible voters turned out for the parliamentary elections to give Gomulka a solid vote of confidence. In the face of growing public disenchantment with the Communist leader, the regime nervously decided on a fair test. There were no vast Communist demonstrations; not a Communist flag, not even a picture of Lenin or Gomulka, was to be seen as the polls opened on the bright winter Sunday morning...
Obeying his electronic command, eleven of the small rockets in the bucket fired, blasting away the nose of the Redstone. They burned for six seconds. Two seconds after that, three more rockets fired, pushing free the empty shells of the first eleven. The central rocket carrying the satellite fired last. It spurted ahead and alone, and reached orbital velocity of more than 18,000 m.p.h...
...Promising to "give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to do it," Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza took command of the Nicaraguan National Guard when the U.S. Marines pulled out in 1933, parlayed his talents into dictatorship, a string of coffee plantations and cattle ranches into a $60 million fortune, was killed, at 60, by an assassin in September...
...Dogs, New Tricks. Heart and brain operations on pets are still uncommon, mainly because they command such high fees. But in Pasadena, Dr. Robert H. Pudenz has successfully removed several brain tumors, both malignant and benign, from dogs and cats. A Florida vet has removed worms from a dog's pulmonary artery with the animal under hypothermia. A dog has no appendix, so is spared the need for an appendectomy, but he has a human-type caecum (a dead-end pouch at a turn in the intestines), which is the favorite hideaway of the whipworm. Vermifuges often cannot reach...
Sorry Mess. No sooner had Major Robert Anderson, U.S.A., arrived to take command at Fort Moultrie, one of the four federal forts in and around Charleston harbor, late in November 1860, than he saw that it could be successfully invaded by a herd of cows; indeed, a wandering Guernsey now and again did enter the fort by crossing the sand dunes heaped wall-high at several points. Anderson recognized Fort Sumter, then unoccupied, as stronger than Moultrie. He urged that it be garrisoned-in a message to the War Department that is as meaningful to 1958 as to 1860: "Nothing...