Word: command
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second Synod of Bishops, Pope Paul VI had hoped to gauge-and to control-the growing resentment against his absolute rule. Instead, after last week's discussions in the Vatican's Hall of Broken Heads, reformists out to curb the Pontiff's power were clearly in command. The 144 assembled prelates, in fact, had taken a groping first step toward something resembling parliamentary government in the Roman Catholic Church...
...subordinate nature to our command only by estranging ourselves from more and more of what we experience, until the reality about which objectivity tells us so much finally becomes a universe of congealed alienation. It is totally within our intellectual and technical power... and it is... worthless...
Neither team could control play in the first half. but Harvard took command after intermission. Andover and Harvard both collecied first-quarter goals. then battled to a stalemate until the final stanza...
...education and the world, it would be surprising indeed if our educational institutions were peaceful." Galbraith said. "The remedy which appeals to many people is to make the universities more amenable to bureaucratic power, intellectual fraud, old-fashioned nationalism, and a decent willingness to get killed at the public command...
Riding atop a thundering Saturn 5 booster, the Apollo 12 astronauts will use a rocketry system virtually identical to the one that propelled Apollo 11. Yet their nautically named command ship, Yankee Clipper, will blaze its own distinctive path. Halfway to the moon, Apollo 12 Skipper Charles ("Pete") Conrad, 39, a veteran of two earth-girdling Gemini flights, will fire the spacecraft's service propulsion engine, jolting the ship out of its "free-return" trajectory. No longer able to loop the moon automatically and return to earth, should its engine falter, Apollo 12 could be lost forever...