Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them that are at ease in Zion... though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down... And though they be hid from my sight at the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. --from the Book of Amos, King James Version...
...apart if the peace talks take certain turns. The National Religious Party and Moshe Dayan's right-wing segment of Labor appear to oppose territorial concessions to Jordan, for instance, since they regard the West Bank as historically part of Israel. United with Begin on this issue, they could command as many as 60 seats and bring down the government. And while negotiations with Jordan do not appear in the immediate offing, they may not be too far off in the future...
...that is the aim, the campaign is a long way from success. Largely because of Chou's leadership, since the Tenth Party Congress last August, membership in the Politburo is stable for the first time in nearly a decade. The power of independent military commanders in the provinces was curbed by a shuffle of command posts late in January. Moreover, several dozen formerly discredited cadres who owe their allegiance to Chou have quietly been brought back into important government positions. Chou himself put on an impressive display of party unity recently when he appeared at a banquet for visiting...
...Marines, the ad fosters the exaltation of a virility equated with violence that helped make possible the Indochina war, as well as such comparatively minor evils as the discrimination to which women and homosexuals are subject in this country. And by its substance, by its offer of command and eventual power in an organization whose recent activities have involved carrying out an illegitimate foreign policy in an indefensible way, the ad fosters the public passivity that lets the United States continue to finance the Indochina war and encourages it to further repression elsewhere...
Springfield took command in the third period as the Chiefs opened up with a 6-1 spurt. However, the determined Crimson fought back to deadlock the score...