Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helping ease the serious shortage of volunteers willing to transport kids to Walpole for the program. The kids hop out in the prison parking lot and run into the anteroom where other youths--both black and white--stand peering into the glass windows of the prison's central command, waiting for the uncooperative guards to find the list that will let them in tonight...
...Kingfish himself, while he served in the U.S. Senate, and then by his son Rus sell. South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston coveted that desk. Russell Long was running for Senate majority whip in 1964 when the matter of the desk came up. Long needed every vote he could command or cajole from his colleagues. His was a classic dilemma, solved in classic Russell Long style. He cut a deal ? first with his father's shade, then with Olin Johnston. On bended knee, he explained his sacrilege: "Daddy, forgive me, but this time I'm going for broke...
...quality of a dramatic dialogue, alternating the tragic declamation of the solo instrument with the orchestra's solemn thunder. Chan played with technical elan but a rather lifeless tone that occasionally made it hard to distinguish him from the rest of the orchestra. But he was more in command of the languorous Adagio which followed. This exquisite lamentation is less a dialogue than a duet, with the solo instrument soaring and flickering above the yearning orchestral line. Chan chose to be restrained rather than impassioned: his cool and liquid voicing, though played with enormous suppleness and grace, was if anything...
...Music to Goethe's Egmont" opened the second half of the program. It was a work of dark splendor. The jaggedly imperious strings stood in stark contrast to the plaintive radiance of the woodwinds. Saturday's performance had a nobly crafted strength; the orchestra responded to Wilkins's tight command with fervor and conviction...
After announcing that he expected an arms limitation agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be completed "within a few weeks," Carter toured Strategic Air Command headquarters at Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base. He saw a command post from which would be launched the nuclear missiles he vowed again last week...