Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Washington's basic plan was established last winter by his British-trained second in command, gaunt, hot-tempered Major General Charles Lee. Before going south to take command in Charles Town, South Carolina, Lee studied New York. His conclusions: since the two best military plans (burning the city or simply abandoning it to Howe) were both politically and morally objectionable, the only way open was a defense that would show the flag and yet make the British pay heavily for taking the city. He persuaded Washington to 1) keep most of his troops dispersed around New York...
...North America from 1758 to 1761 as a young officer, eventually leading his brigade up the cliffs at Quebec to help Wolfe defeat Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham. Less than two years ago, as a Member of Parliament from Nottingham, he told his constituents that if offered a command in any war against the Colonies, he would refuse to serve...
...repertory only at the end of the 1975 season. The sets and props were all made and on hand, the costly costumes sewn and in storage, the incidental music composed and its parts copied. In addition, a number of the players were free to return and already in full command of their roles...
West Point provides a transition from Main Street, U.S.A., to the battlefield. Would you rather trust your son to the command of an officer who you know is honorable and whose integrity is of the highest order or to an officer who lies, cheats, steals and tolerates his peers...
...President's operation gives off too little crackle from the candidate himself. With affable but unsavvy Rogers Morton as chairman, it has no strong command figure at the center. From the start, Ford and his strategists never took the Reagan challenge too seriously. As Betty Ford told Women's Wear Daily last week: "I can tell you they just sat back complacently, thinking that the President would be nominated, that it was sort of a shoo...