Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Steinbrenner has earned a reputation for wantonly hiring and firing managers, but former A's owner Charles Finely set the standard which faris use to measure Steinbrenner's impatience. Five points for each of the two men you can name who served two separate terms in command...
...enough to absorb the complete vocabulary of the job. I kept pressing him. He said he had ordered pilots of the Strategic Air Command to their bases...
...days later?at 2:35 p.m. on Monday, March 30?the State Department command center informed me that the television networks were reporting that a gunman had fired shots at President Reagan as he left the Washington Hilton Hotel but that the President had escaped injury. I picked up a telephone connected to a direct White House line. James Baker told me that the first report was inaccurate. The President had been struck "in the back" by a bullet. "It looks quite serious," Baker said. "I'm going to the hospital...
Weinberger added that Ed Meese had told him on the telephone that the Secretary of Defense was third in line of command after the President and Vice
...take charge" image had taken hold even before March 30. Only a few weeks before, my photograph (jaw jutting, arms akimbo) had been on the cover of TIME magazine. With the insouciant hyperbole for which that publication is famous, the caption read "Taking Command." Inside, under a bold line reading "The 'Vicar' Takes Charge," the editors devoted several pages of snare-drum prose to an account of my life and a description of the Reagan foreign policy. ABC reported: "The sight of Alexander Haig taking command on the cover of TIME magazine was more than some of the President...