Word: command
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hanoi newspapers have lately been publishing a serial account of last year's conquest of South Viet Nam. Written by North Vietnamese Chief of Staff General Van Tien Dung-second in military command to Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap-the remarkably candid narrative offers an intimate glimpse of North Vietnamese thoughts on the successful offensive. Some of Dung's main disclosures...
Many inside and outside the industry were afraid that as a result of the competitive bidding for Walters' talents, the line between journalism and show business, always somewhat smudgy in television, would become even further blurred. "It makes me exceedingly uncomfortable that people can command so much money doing news," groused NBC News President Richard Wald, after losing one of his network's indisputable stars. "It's a system that belongs to entertainment, not news." Said a top CBS executive: "For 20 years we've struggled to have broadcast news treated on a par with print...
...hour before the 3 p.m. final, a driving rainstorm struck Lake Quinsigamond. The 'Cliffe started poorly, nearly catching three crabs in the whitecapped water. Dartmouth established command early, and was never threatened thereafter...
...people take first place," carried a message that had rarely been heard in a nation which had suffered for 48 years under fascism. Fittingly, the song was the signal for those army officers--mainly captains and majors--committed to the cause of a socialist and democratic Portugal to take command of key military and government installations, and to overthrow the regime of President Marcello Caetano. "Grandola" was played and sung by the Portuguese many times in the days following the coup. It expressed better than any party or government's program the motives that impelled massive redistribution from big landowners...
...acting laurels for the show clearly belong to Terry Knickerbocker, who delivers a lustrous performance as Jack Point. Possessed of a "pretty wit," Point is a man paid to be funny while all the time bleeding inside. Knickerbocker's command of the role is nothing short of masterful--every gesture, every expression is just right. Excluded from the circle of marital contentment at the end, he endows his final appeal to Elsie with a poignant melancholy that is riveting...