Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also in 1969, whether at the command of his mother's genes, a primordial need to match his father, or a simple, old-fashioned lust for power, that Brown switched from backroom strategy to running his own campaign...
Tucked into President Ford's economic speech, the statement failed to command much attention at first. Yet the new program, under which traders are asked to seek Department of Agriculture approval of all sales abroad exceeding 50,000 tons of grain at one shot or 100,000 tons in a week, set off a wave of international jitters even as it aimed at holding down prices at home...
Under such conditions, Myra is periodically able to take full command of Myron's body. This gives the narrative a Jekyll and Hyde format, with Myra eventually upstaging Myron, who every one thinks is a drag queen. Still unsatisfied by her escapades in Book I, Myra resumes her humiliation of men, inflict ing yet another hilarious outrage upon a strapping, redheaded youth out of the Van Johnson mold. She also undertakes to save Hollywood, armed with the fore-knowlege of its decline and Vidal's grasp of the industry's "future" profit-and-loss sheets. She even...
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for 68 years, succumbing at last at age 86, two years after the start of World War I. When Franz Joseph succeeded to its command, the Habsburg holdings included Milan and Venice, Prague and Cracow, as well as Vienna and Budapest. Within two years of his death, the empire had been reduced to the small country, centered on Vienna, that it essentially is today. The Eagles Die is the story of that Habsburg sunset, and of the golden light that Viennese culture shed in the waning days of empire...
...touchdown gave Harvard an uncomfortable 14-6 lead at halftime, but at least there was the feeling that Harvard was taking command of the ballgame...