Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veteran reporters applauded Carter for his relaxed, informal style, his command of the issues, his open answers to sensitive questions. To be sure, the reporters' questions lacked some of their usual bite, and the President dodged a few of the most direct thrusts. Yet he also frankly admitted that "we've made some mistakes" in slighting congressional leaders and vowed to make amends. Indeed, he showed through the week that he was learning fast. He pleased Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd by frequent calls for consultation. He moved to isolate Texas Congressman Jack Brooks, the most vocal opponent...
...Cusumano silenced the crowd with a stunning third-period pin that left Harvard in command...
...Professor Wilson's views are indeed as absurd as Ms. Rosenthal seems to think, it would be more prudent on her part to allow his hypotheses to fall victim to the truly scientific method of test by experiment, rather than the politically-motivated haranguing of a nutritionist whose command of the topic is perhaps open to some doubt. Stephen Schumacher '80 James Armstrong...
...statements by West European leaders have all sounded that alarm. Exactly how much the Soviets are spending is a question that has long bedeviled the West. To begin with, the published Soviet military budget is far from a reliable guide. In addition, the Soviet Union's centralized "command" economy can order factories to sell military arms and equipment at artificially low prices. Thus even if the real Soviet defense budget were known, the figures would be grossly misleading...
...that made Marlene Dietrich a star; in Visp, Switzerland. Son of a Rhenish cork manufacturer, Zuckmayer won a pocketful of medals in World War I, then turned to writing. His immensely popular comedy about Prussian militarism, The Captain of Koepenick (1931), in which a shoemaker is able to take command of a town simply because he dons an army captain's uniform, earned Nazi wrath. After fleeing Hitler in 1933, Zuckmayer eventually settled on a farm in Vermont and wrote The Devil's General a black-bile drama attacking the Nazi high command. When Germany collapsed, he returned...