Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also reaching back, trying to get a grip on its soul. There were cheers and gasps of admiration a few months ago for those square-riggers in the Hudson, spectacular symbols of a graceful youth. Later there were good-natured chuckles when the regulars of George Washington's command sloshed by boat across the now leaden and polluted waters of the Delaware River-as they had 200 years ago-to surprise the Hessians in Trenton the day after Christmas. In most hearts there was a residue of admiration for the courage that began this experiment in liberty...
...center of the storm was Abu Daoud, 39, a member of the Revolutionary Military Command of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Abu Daoud (real name: Mohammed Daoud Mohammed Auda) is a mysterious figure in the P.L.O.'s terrorist operations who is widely believed to have had a key role in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 17 people died, including eleven Israeli athletes (see box). Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon denounced Abu Daoud as an "arch-terrorist" last week; curiously, Israeli intelligence officials-who might have had a special interest in seeing a notorious terrorist apprehended-insisted that since...
Most Appealing. Museum Director Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 astronaut who circled the moon in the command module Columbia while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the lunar surface for the first time, figures that the Spirit is the most popular airplane in NASM. It was a big drawing card in the Smithsonian's old building as well, and Lindbergh himself viewed it there a number of times. Once, in 1959, Lindbergh asked museum officials if he might see the plane alone and startled them when he also requested a ladder. Without a word, he climbed the ladder...
...call "the American barroom confessional play," in which the characters gorge beer and disgorge bathos. By play's end, nothing much has changed. Mansfield is still a place where worms do not turn, and Bobby is still a man who, despite his raging claim to independence, could scarcely command respect on two legs, let alone on four wheels. Supported by an admirable cast, John Cullum commands full respect and a role worthy of his talents...
...Marisa, who as the goddaughter of Napoleon's first wife Josephine de Beauharnais might be expected to live a somewhat sheltered life, is violated twelve times on three continents by five men. On top of that, she gives a command performance for Napoleon, suffers a miscarriage, undergoes captivity in a Turkish harem and is sold as a slave in Louisiana. Why is the heroine subjected to all these horrors? Cynics might imagine that Marisa's martyrdom is merely intended to offer the bored middle-class female a succession of vicarious masochistic thrills, but Author Rogers seems to think...