Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clanked off toward the south. Passing a bombed-out Egyptian coast-guard camp, we saw Egyptian dead sprawled in shallow trenches. As we drove along the Great Bitter Lake, we could see smoke rising from Suez far to the south. Finally, we were dropped off in a forward command post, where I was given a lift in the APC of a colorful brigadier general. Let's call him "Tallo" (it is a violation of Israeli censorship to publish the names of brigade commanders). Moshe, the APC machine gunner, had cautioned me to sleep near the vehicle because shelling...
Almost 2,000 years before Islam's rise, the ancient Jews took possession of their promised land under the rubric of divine command. As recorded in the Book of Deuteronomy, the idolaters occupying the area were to be annihilated completely: men, women, children, "as the Lord your God commanded you." Such enemies were herem-proscribed abominations whose pagan practices threatened contagion. History is unclear how often this "commandment" was carried out, but Joshua seems to have applied it with vigor against Canaan...
...year-old Harvard Business School graduate, is offering 2,000,000 copies of a single title, Dark Star, for only 15? each. The plot: prim secretary competes with dusky movie starlet for affections of compelling Latin. Dealers across the U.S. are getting the book free; it would normally command about 36? wholesale, 60? retail...
...Many people were misled by Dixy Lee's life-style and expected her to be a character while others actually ran the show," a friend says. "Instead, she took command." Before Ray's reign, the AEC was notably reluctant to discuss the environmental impact of many key policies-except in court. To help change that situation, Ray outmaneuvered two of the agency's most effective and powerful figures, James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat...
...tortured personality. Every once in a while, his voice rings out memorably-in an outburst at Parliament ("Begone, you rogues, you have sat long enough"), or pleading with a superior not to order tired horses into battle ("They will fall down under their riders if you thus command them; you may have their skins, but you can have no service"). Or, raging at a petition from the Irish Catholic clergy, offered as he was about to reconquer royalist Ireland ("By the grace of God, we fear not, we care not for union. Your covenant was with death and hell...