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Word: commandant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout most of the game, the lead teetered back and forth, with neither the Crimson nor the Quakers taking command. But with 6:25 remaining, center Marget Long's two converted free throws put Harvard in front for good...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, | Title: Women Hoopsters Bounce Penn, 57-55; Long Paces Crimson to First Victory | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...Orleans Saints Head Coach Bum Phillips, one of Bear's assistants at A & M, was awed by Bryant's command. "He'd go into a staff meeting," Phillips says, "and he'd never have to say, 'Let me have you-all's attention.' Hell, he had it. You respected him and you liked him. You didn't do it because you were scared of him. Although I was a little scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 1, and Still Counting | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...suite from his full-length ballet Orpheus, based on the Greek myth. And in Barcarola, a darkly impressive work for large orchestra, Henze imaginatively and theatrically depicts the gloomy world of Charon, the ferryman of dead souls across the river Styx. On display in each were Henze's command of orchestration, his sturdy sense of musical architecture and his unerring ear for effective sonorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Marxist Art, Capitalist Style | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...work with, say the experts, food and affection-heavy on the food, please-will help teach most house cats to forgo clawing the couch and spraying. With the patience usually given only to holy men-plus more food-felines can also be tutored in the arts of sitting on command, lying down and rolling over. Some proud owners have even instructed their cats to eat daintily with their paws directly from the food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy over Cats | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Crimson point guard Calvin Dixon took command of his team from the opening tip-off, scoring a team-high 21 points and baffling the opposition with his usual display of Globetrotter dribbling and look-away passing...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Takes Ivy Opener; Feisty Dartmouth Falls, 80-64 | 12/3/1981 | See Source »

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